Word: digging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reported that 25% of Rockaway Beach was swept away by the pounding surf, while in Maine a combination of heavy rains and brutal winds wiped out coastal bridges and flooded shoreline cottages. Ohio Governor James Rhodes declared a snow emergency and called out 150 National Guardsmen to help Cleveland dig out from under massive drifts that had smothered the city. The West Coast too was washed by storms: a Pacific gale and a drenching rain sent huge waves crashing along the California coast, causing mudslides and damage to many shoreside homes...
...Michael S. Dukakis told state employees working in Boston to stay home unless their jobs are essential, and the school department ordered public schools shut down for the day, as the city struggles to dig out from the record January storm...
...Viet Nam border settlements to safer places. One of the evacuees was Nguyen Him Oanh, 26, who decided to keep on moving and finally escaped to Bangkok. "We had to give up our cloth and spice shop and move along the road east," she reported. "Then we had to dig bunkers and bomb shelters. Every day I saw Vietnamese soldiers going toward the border in trucks, with tanks and artillery. Just before I escaped, I saw the bodies of 20 Khmer Rouge laid out along the road. Our soldiers put them there as a display, to show us that they...
What can you write about a guy whose worst trait is that he is too nice a guy on the squash court? Grilling his competitors for some insights just hasn't worked--it would take the combined efforts of Kojak, Crocker and Stravos to dig up some dirt on squash captain Mark Panarese...
Children are separated into communal work camps at the age of twelve and strictly segregated by sex. Single youths are required to chop trees, dig irrigation ditches and clear stumps. Since they work harder than others in a cooperative, they receive more food. But even they do not always get enough. At Pronet Phrac, a work camp west of Battambang, only ten youths are assigned to catch fish for 8,000 residents. Result: four or five people die of exhaustion every...