Word: digging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scaly, furry and feathered creatures speak for themselves in Turtle in July (Macmillan; $13.95). Marilyn Singer's liberated verses suggest bodily rhythms (Deer Mouse: "get enough to last/ get enough to store/ get more"; Beavers: "You guard/ I pack/ I dig/ You stack"; Dragonfly: "Look/ skim/ there/ snap/ eat/ Repeat"). Meanwhile, Jerry Pinkney's watercolors furnish the shades and tints of four seasons and 15 highly articulate animals...
...didn't dig deep down when we needed to," junior center Peter Ciavaglia said. "We know what we have to do as far as individual efforts go. [Army] should be awfully confident after their win over Cornell...
...donations and grants, MadCAAP takes old wood-frame buildings that local communities and private owners no longer need and hauls them to new sites. There volunteers from local churches and schools join with families that have been aided in the past to install wiring, put up paneling and dig septic tanks. Over the past six years MadCAAP has recycled old houses for 70 families in and around Canton (pop. 11,500), a courthouse-squared town 20 miles north of Jackson. MadCAAP's aim, according to its unflappable founder and director, Sister Grace Mary McGuire, 57, is to "try and break...
...weeping and calling out her name, as rescuers probed through the shambles. Finally convinced she could not have survived, they gave up late Tuesday night. That was too soon for the woman's friends, who taunted and pushed the workers, pleading with them to look again. They threatened to dig into the dangerous wreckage themselves. Police arrested five people. Late Wednesday the body of Robin Ortiz was found...
...avoid addressing President Mikhail Gorbachev's ambitious agenda. But the paper did so unevenly, sometimes approving changes and at other times reflecting the views of the Politburo's conservative members. As for investigative journalism that turned up scandals from the past, Afanasyev gradually grew tired of exhumed skeletons. "To dig around in the dirty linen of our history," he told the daily Sovetskaya Rossiya in September, "merely serves to lead people away from the solution of our contemporary problems...