Word: digging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desolate, mountainous region, where the rivers run black over slate and shale. Its miners are a tough, hardy folk, for the equipment they use is outmoded, the coal they dig is of low quality and difficult to extract; a man's average output is only six-tenths of a ton in an eight-hour day, perhaps one-twentieth of a U.S. coal miner's production...
...dig-it-yourself movement stirred irate protests from Moscow, where Pravda accused West Berlin authorities of "openly inciting subversive actions against peace." In fact, the exodus has been stepped up by East Germany's increasingly desperate food shortage. Blaming the situation on its lack of export credits rather than the abysmal failure of its collectivized agriculture, the regime last week urged the people to start growing food in their own backyards. Whether for food or freedom, it looked as if more and more East Germans would be out digging this summer...
Inside there was air conditioning, wall-to-wall carpeting and dishwashers, and the price was right: $12,950 to $16,950. The builder of Woodland West did little more than dig foundations and pound nails. In everything else, from making elevation surveys to placing newspaper advertisements, the development is the work of L. C. Major & Associates of Downey. Calif., pioneers in the art of tractitioning...
Sophia Loren's absence from last week's Academy Award ceremonies was unvarnished nervousness. The Hollywood correspondent of Rome's Il Messaggero had written a convincing argument that the "xenophobes" of Hollywood were not about to ''dig their graves with their own hands" by honoring furriners. Sophia canceled her plane reservations at the last moment, feeling too overwrought to fly halfway round the world to play the gracious loser...
...motions of a championship playoff that may well run on almost till Easter. Months ago, the long schedule made clear that the Boston Celtics are easily the class of the league (TIME, Dec. 22), the best at the game's swift art of dunking baskets while elbows dig and feet flail and the referee's whistle skirls its endless interruptions...