Word: digging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Have to dig deep...
...giving China an industrial base greater than that of Britain. From Li's neat office in Embracing Kindness Hall-a two-story Manchu dynasty palace in Peking's Forbidden City-have poured the blueprints and directives that marshaled China's millions into antlike armies to dig canals, mine coal and iron ore, and work the soil of 24,000 spartan people's communes. It has been clear for some time that the Great Leap was really a leap into disaster, but the extent of the failure is only now becoming plain. By fanatically stressing industry, Peking...
...week's end-New York will pay up to 50% of the cost of shelter building at schools and colleges, provide $15 million for shelters at state-run institutions. Although the program may cost $100 million or more, the state's taxpayers will not have to dig down for extra cash: the law merely unfreezes money that was originally set aside for new roads, and that became available for shelter use when Congress failed to provide sufficient matching funds. The legislation includes stiff penalties aimed at contractors who sell below-par shelter protection ($5,000 fines for corporations...
...said last week that he is giving serious consideration to a plan for building large fallout shelters in populous areas along the federal interstate highway routes now under construction. The plan, proposed by Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston B. Morton, would make use of the holes highway crews dig to gather fill; it would save money by utilizing the heavy earth-moving equipment already on the potential shelter sites...
...perhaps both a symptom and a cause of mankind's present retreat from the idea of the obsolescence of war in the nuclear age. It seems that both we and the Russians are indeed beginning to assume our survivability as nations after such a war-if only we dig well enough beforehand. This kind of mutual self-confidence may well help to bring on the war we seek to avoid...