Word: digging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because Jimmy Carter and his staff were pretty unwilling to share what was on their minds with reporters, or at least less willing than George McGovern was in 1972. That's the trouble with a news event--when there's no news, you go visit the leper colony to dig up some protagonist's great aunt. It's not that Reeves is not a good reporter--he is--but just that there was not that much to report, or if there was, nobody was talking. Reeves was in Kansas City, and one wonders why he didn't base the book...
Harvard graduate students will have to dig still deeper into their pockets next year, because tuitions across the board are rising once again...
...exam after the second weekend. Come on, don't make the same mistake you did last term. You know you want to get out of here as soon as possible and besides, the next time exams roll around, the sun will be shining. Brightly. As in rays. You dig. That eliminates Monday, Wednesday and Friday at one, and two, Tuesday and Thursday at 12, three and four...
...better chance to grow. The experiments will be run at temperatures closer to the frigid levels that prevail on Mars. Also, in a search for life that may have burrowed deeper into the Martian soil to escape ultraviolet radiation bombarding the surface, one of the landers will try to dig 30.5 centimeters (1 foot) deep for a soil sample. Explains Klein: "We want to play out our whole set of cards before we make our best judgment on the question of life on Mars...
...Republican Leader John Rhodes with a sly twinkle. A roar of laughter rolled through an abnormally cheery House chamber. Just elected the 48th Speaker of the House on a straight party-line vote of 290 to 142, Democratic Congressman Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill replied with a good-natured dig of his own. "My colleague well knows I understand that he has his eye on the Speaker's seat," said O'Neill. "I am sure that is all he has on it." More laughter...