Word: digging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lost Bronze Age" that goes on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City this week. The exhibit, which travels to Los Angeles in March, is sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania and the National Museum of Thailand, both of which organized the major dig at the site in 1974-75. During the excavation, archaeologists and Thai officials battled looting and cave-ins to extract artifacts from the 62-acre mound...
...winter there were only 13 Fifty-Niners left on the Susitna, and what a winter they had. On Christmas Eve, Steve Pankiewicz's mare Ruby, a Percheron draft horse, fell 20 ft. into a well. All night long the men worked to dig the horse out of the frozen gravel, and by 4 a.m. they were finished. They earned Shorty's grudging admiration. "Those people did something nobody ever did before in this country," he allowed. "They got a horse in a well and got it out alive." Later that winter Bertha Donaldson fell...
...hominid's left arm and hand, the right arm from the elbow down, and most of both feet. Leakey hopes to unearth those fragments next summer. The only other known near complete Homo erectus was discovered in 1975 by Leakey across Lake Turkana from the present dig. But that hominid had suffered from a degenerative bone disease, and therefore the find was useless as an archetype of the species...
...inept security around our Beirut embassy continues to amaze me. A child would know the solution. Dig a 6-ft. trench across the roadway. Add a drawbridge and keep it open. Any terrorist vehicle without wings would bury itself in he hole and selfdestruct. A day's work should...
...press conference in Birmingham later in the day, Bush proceeded to dig himself in deeper. Asked to confirm the wording of his remark, he replied, "I didn't use 'a little' " (the tape established that he had, though). He agreed that he had used "an old Texas football expression" and added, "I stand behind it." He would not apologize to Ferraro, he said, because the remark was not aimed at her. "It was a way of assessing victory. She would understand this. She's a good competitor." Ferraro's comment: "I would not address my opponent in the same...