Word: digging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robbers. Offered in 1973, such reasoning drives archaeologists to near frenzy. Said Nicholas Hellmuth, who headed a 1970 dig in the ancient Mayan city of Yaxja in Guatemala and saw tombs laid waste by robbers: "I'd like to take the next museum art director I see and dip him in honey and tie him up near an anthill." The big collections, say Curators Bennet Bronson and Donald Collier of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, are supporting an entire underworld. Collectors usually deal only with the last-and most gentlemanly-middlemen. In an atmosphere of genteel...
Volpe said that "a lot of students are not exposed to hockey until they come to Harvard, in hockey-crazed Boston, where they fall in love with the sport. They can't skate, so they dig playing street hockey...
...tore me down-and my family," says Wardrip. He claims, however, that he left the flag hanging in his bus "to show my patriotism-honest. I dig the flag." Unmoved, Judge Rees stood by his sentence, the intent of which, he said, was "embarrassment." Rees certainly achieved that intent. But was using the flag as a partition a much greater desecration than using it as a means of embarrassing a U.S. citizen...
...these women's emotion, but the intelligence and intuitions which direct these emotions. The case can be made much more purely with women because they are so human, and here are divorced from any encounter with external social conflicts. Bergman, in fact, makes a far more subtle dig at the bourgeois than Kael gives him credit for: the men are cartoon figures, unable to bring their families any ordering values from their work. Beyond that, even after the social revolution, we will all have to face the problems these sisters encounter...
Whether what's coming is a West Texas farm boy playing Bach fugues on a cactus pear or the White House staff singing footlight favorites, you can bet your quadraphonic tape deck that Farrell and his competitors will be on hand, those contract-signing ballpoints at the ready; dig...