Word: digging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white miners begged for one more rescue attempt. A self-styled seer, Petrus Johannes Kleinhans, 29, had told them that he had a vision in which he saw the precise position of seven black and three white men, still alive. When he pointed to the place to dig, mine officials, who had insisted all along that there was no hope, said it was 1,100 ft. away from the nearest tunnel. Seer Kleinhans then had a second vision in which he saw all ten dying at exactly 9:15 Friday morning. Though rush rescue attempts had stopped by that time...
...deeply, and for what cause, should the press dig into a man's past? In a free press there can be no hard and fast answer to such a question. But last week there seemed to be a clear case of a great newspaper having gone too far, and for the wrong reasons...
...with sources-can be attributed to the fact that he represents that towering institution, the New York Times. But part of it is unquestionably due to Reston's great ability, industry and purpose. He is driven by the firm conviction that a newsman's duty is to dig out, expose and criticize the seeds of Government policy before they become policy-so that there may be genuine public debate. His deep, burning purpose is to favorably influence the course of important public events...
...small and medium-sized businesses-about one in 23 of all U.S. manufacturing corporations. Heller not only pumps in vital funds where banks shun the risk, but freely dispenses the advice and guidance that many struggling firms need as badly as money. His aim is to make them so Dig and fat that they no longer need him. In the process, his own company has grown big and fat: this week it announced record earnings of $2.74 a share, the twelfth consecutive yearly record...
That night, when the first dazed rescuers began to dig, there was hope the prisoners might still be alive. Canaries, carried underground in cages to test the air, survived, and 31 pit ponies were taken out alive and well. But, ominously, no "pipe talk" came back when the diggers tapped messages on the one water pipe that seemed to be intact, and a weary worker came to the surface shaking his head, saying, "It will take us a week to get near them." All through the night, womenfolk, some wailing, others grimly tightlipped, stood clinging to a fence near...