Word: digging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rommel's leftover contour maps and aerial photographs), nine West German scientists and engineers settled down to write detailed reports on a daring project to convert the Qattara into a mammoth new power project. First suggested by the British more than 30 years ago, the idea is to dig a ditch from the Mediterranean to within nine miles of the Depression. Thence a tunnel would be bored under the rocky escarpment that rises along the Depression's northern rim. Emerging from the tunnel, the water would drop down the cliff into turbines to generate 2.7 billion kilowatt hours...
Beneath the dust cloud that shrouded the ruins, an estimated 500 to 700 were dead; 7,000 were homeless. News of other hundreds dead trickled in from villages in the surrounding mountains. Over the course of five days, successive quakes trapped and killed rescue workers trying to dig out survivors from the first disaster. France offered a stethoscope device successfully used in Agadir in March to detect still breathing victims trapped beneath the rubble. The U.S. naval attache in Teheran flew a DC-3 down to the stricken city with emergency supplies and took out survivors. At week...
...also one of the better stories racked up by a newsman who has had plenty of good ones. Assigned in 1920 to dig up evidence that the 1919 World Series had been fixed, Reporter Reutlinger asked a Chicago White Sox fan for the name of "the dumbest player on the team." Name in hand, Reutlinger knocked on the door of Outfielder Oscar ("Happy") Felsch with the startling-and false -news: "I just want to tell you they've confessed." Replied the dumbest member of the White Sox: "Well, those wise guys. Sure, I got mine too. Five hundred bucks...
When he got takers?and he generally did?Arnie would carefully apply the overlapping grip that his father had been teaching him for two years, dig in his toes, draw back his undersized driver, and cut loose with a swing of such violence that the momentum often sent him sprawling on the ground?even as the ball headed out over the ditch. Pocketing his nickels, Arnie would confide to steady customers: "Some day I'm going to be a big golfer, like Bobby Jones...
...central Italy during World War II the Germans have set up a concentration camp for Jewish children, most of whose parents have been liquidated, not far from a good-sized convent. Italian partisans promptly dig a tunnel under the fence, and the Italian guards look the other way while the children escape. Nuns meet the children at tunnel's end and hide them in the convent crypt until partisans can pick them...