Word: digging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loved the article on "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Woody Allen" [July 3]. It was an experience. The man is a genius. When I finished reading the article, I wanted more and more. I wouldn't exactly call Mr. Allen a sex symbol, but I dig him as my new "mind symbol...
...which can cost up to 500,000 piasters ($1,200). For a time it was not uncommon for boys to chop off the first two fingers of their gun hand; that practice ended when the military decided to conscript the fingerless youths for porters. Today, some desperate draftees dig a shallow hole, toss in a fragmentation grenade, and cover the hole with a foot. If done properly, the practice brings an instant medical discharge...
...that lie about 20 feet below the surface. Says Georges Fradier, a Frenchman who heads UNESCO'S "Save Carthage" mission in Tunis: "If the building boom goes on, Carthage will be really destroyed-this time for good. Nobody is going to demolish a new city in order to dig up an old city...
...departure. Herbert Armstrong's letter denied any actual loss in revenue, but acknowledged that 1972 receipts have not grown as much as expected. In announcing Garner Ted's new campaign, Herbert told members that the W.C.G. was in "serious financial need" and asked them to dig deep to support the great lunge forward...
...first thing one senses is that the Israeli race to dig in is over. Only once, beside the Suez Canal, did I see earth movers working in a cluster, bolstering causeways that already looked forbiddingly high. Elsewhere, telephone and electric lines are in place, water pipes are underground. Fences and electronic gear do sentry duty; few military vehicles or troops are noticeable. But they are there. "We've got everything we need," said an officer in a forward post. "One shell and I'll be ready to make war in three minutes, maybe less...