Word: digging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When archaeologists dig up Los Angeles in a few millenniums, they may be puzzled by some of the fossils they find along a 1.68-mile stretch of Jefferson Boulevard. For there, in a gesture of economy and perhaps utility, Los Angeles County has installed 900 plastic peperomias, pit-tosporums and ti palms, among other flora, to decorate the roadway...
...heard that they have some hot stag movies floating around Hollywood," the pillar of finance told me. "If you can dig up a good one for me, I'll close the deal...
...EVERYONE DIGS FOND DU LAC, said the headline in a half-page ad in the Milwaukee Sentinel, BUT YOU JUST MIGHT. The ones who don't dig it were symbolized in a picture of three shaggy hippies glaring out at the reader...
...discovery of the royal tomb, which contains the skeletons of a prince, a princess and an infant-as well as other recent digs in the U.S.S.R.-gives the old stories the ring of historical fact. Herodotus tells, for instance, how the Scythians beheaded their fallen enemies and brought the skulls back to camp to use as wine goblets. Archaeologist Renate Rolle, a young West German woman and the first Western scientist allowed to participate in a Soviet dig since 1920, reports that there is new evidence of Scythian ferociousness. Lances and bows and arrows found in graves along with female...
...subject made Wilhelma believer in extra terrestrial life? "It is simply too arrogant a presumption to say flat out that kind humans are alone in the universe," he says. "Sometimes this kind of mystical belief rings truer than the cleanest scientific logic. That's why I dig Shelley's poetic leap of faith: Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity...