Word: digging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter reaffirmed his Administration's own commitment to human rights and extolled the U.S. philosophy "based on personal freedom, the most powerful of all ideas." In a cutting dig, Carter noted that "even Marxist-Leninist groups no longer look on the Soviet Union as a model to be imitated...
...shelter I slept in last night is the oldest on the kibbutz. It was first used during Israel's war for statehood in 1948. This shelter was better prepared. It came equipped with a pick-axe, so the survivors could later dig themselves out of the rubble...
...chronic cut-up, the "life of the party:" the guy who clowns with everyone, loves everyone, is loved by everyone and opens up to no one--not even himself. The play is an excellent piece of entertainment wrapped in an extraordinary production, and if Slade doesn't dig deep enough--opting to warm the heart rather than chill the soul--the play suggests that a more self-conscious and hence more penetrating approach to humor, wherein characters ponder the neurotic implications of their own one-liners, has merged into popular comic culture...
...P.L.O. official in Beirut suggests sardonically that the next step will be Israeli settlements in south Lebanon. "Or it may be an archaeological dig," he adds slyly, referring to the illegal Jewish settlement at Shiloh in the West Bank that the Begin government persists in pretending is there for archaeological pursuits...
...utilities and wildcatters who provide free fuel and a small royalty to the landowner. Other wells are sunk by individuals. A typical case is that of Fred Norman of Harborcreek, near Erie, Pa., who decided three years ago to follow the example of many of his neighbors and dig his own well. For $3,000 Norman hired a water-well driller, who struck gas at only 874 ft. Norman's cousin, a plumber, rigged a pipe to carry the gas into the house, where it fuels a hot-water heater, two heating stoves and a cooking stove. Norman estimates...