Word: digging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...around, tells a joke ("The old church bell won't ring tonight as the vicar's got the clapper") that nobody laughs at, so he tries another song: "Thank God we're normal (bump), normal (bump), normal (bump)!" Somebody in the audience groans: "Where did they dig...
...marvelous is U.S. technology today that practically any good idea can be turned into a product. The Army needed a giant ditchdigger. Barber-Greene Co. built one: a voracious behemoth that can dig a continuous trench 2-ft. wide and 6-ft. deep through any surface, including rock and coral, is now available to commercial purchasers. Le Tourneau Inc. of Texas built a mobile island crane that can be towed out to an offshore construction site, its legs sunk and anchored while it does its job. The job finished, the legs can be retracted, and the island crane towed...
...large lecture-discussions. With team teaching and an adviser for every 20 students, each student will be encouraged to go as far as he can in each field. A bright youngster may pick up broad principles in group discussions, carry them further in seminars, use the "resource areas" to dig in on his own, and wind up with advanced standing in college...
Congratulations and all that jazz to TIME on a real gasser of a story on that chick-loving weirdo I dig, that bug, Mort Sahl. "Wild...
...general's belt tightening makes sense, but it has also raised unemployment and brought on a mild business recession. Unaccustomed to such tight money, Turkey's merchants have had to dig into their gold hoards to meet current costs. Farmers, promised cement and sugar-beet plants by Menderes, now talk openly against Gursel when there are no soldiers around. There is grumbling, too, over the fact that the army is still making occasional arrests for "antirevolutionary activities," a vague charge theoretically punishable by death and thus a powerful damper on the right to dissent...