Word: digging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after being forced to drink straight alcohol, whisky, vodka and gin, for more than 24 hours by a fraternity called the Sundowners. In New Jersey in 1974 William Flowers, a pledge to the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at Monmouth College, suffocated in a "grave" he had been forced to dig for himself on a rainswept beach...
...which Zaïre managed to borrow extensively abroad. It now owes $2.9 billion, $800 million of which is due private lenders in the U.S., Europe and Japan. But instead of achieving steady growth, Zaïre became a textbook example of how a Third World nation can dig itself into an economic hole. Today the country is all but bankrupt; it has fallen badly behind in repaying its debts. Manhattan's Citibank and other creditor banks have agreed to arrange a new $250 million loan, but first they imposed tough conditions under which Mobutu will in effect...
...towel years ago, this film will show you why. The jig has long been up on Jagger's androgonous lewdness. Yet like the seemingly straight lodger who gets sucked into this singer's hallucinogenic world, you may still revel in the decadence. If you think you might still dig it, as the saying went, go freak yourself...
...will be a good 44 weeks before I can make Ivy League football predictions agian, so I guess these will have to hold me over. And now, without further adieu, here are this week's winners (you've got to dig the confidence...
...Massachusetts adopts this amendment, other states will doubtless (see "1776" for proof) follow. And as soon as New York passes the amendment, those Yankee Stadium bleacherites will refrain from throwing their empty Rheingold cans at the enemy rightfielder so as not to lose their nickel of a deposit. You dig...