Word: digging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already made his request clearly and firmly at the White House and had been turned down pending an analysis of the needs of Government agencies. Undismayed, Ellis decided to go ahead with his budget plans, with or without Administration approval. The bigger budget was needed, he insisted, to dig more bomb shelters, improve existing shelters, stockpile medicine and mobile hospitals, and expand the OCDM educational program. "I haven't received much encouragement yet," Ellis admitted, "but it is a vital interest of the President to expand and extend this program...
...codelike nudges. Kerr responded in print with a riposte that made Merrick look like 44 kinds of fool, or roughly six short of the mark. "She likes me, that crazy girl," wrote Kerr. "Surely, Mr. Merrick, someone, somewhere, has liked you well enough to give you a little dig in the elbow. No? Ah, well...
...trade news in a section such as Education is easy to find: a new school building program, the choice of a new college president. Harder to dig for, and requiring a spelunker's resourcefulness, is the kind of Education story that illumines the continuing process of growing and learning. Some recent examples are such TIME stories as Little Known-& Good, a look at 50 good small colleges; Campus Conservatives, the new political trend in the colleges; Go Everywhere, Young Man, the first broad description of the Peace Corps and its possibilities; Programed Learning, about the new teaching machines...
...Embarrassed Cough." The U.S. press took a far dimmer view. "The background noise you hear," said the New York Post in a sly dig at Chain-Smoker Murrow, "is an embarrassed cigarette cough." The New York Times's TV Critic Jack Gould all but invited Murrow to retire: "If Mr. Murrow was acting under orders of the State Department, he should have resigned after 24 hours in office. If Mr. Murrow acted on his own responsibility, his action constitutes an inexplicable refutation of the principle he has enunciated for years-that the good and the bad about this country...
...have supernatural help going for us," says Spokane's Father Triesch. The help has not saved Spokane from dropping the first grade in at least three schools, planning to drop second grade in one. and starting a "parish loyalty" screening system that gives priority to parents who dig deepest. In suburban Greenhills, Ohio, near Cincinnati, Rosary Parish school is also dropping first grade in the face of doubled enrollment, the loss of five lay teachers and "almost insufferable financial problems...