Word: digging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many in Ball's family protested the project. "You're going to dig up my grandfather and hang him!" shrieked one cousin. Blacks met Ball with suspicion, sometimes with anger. "The name Ball meant enemy," says Charlotte Dunn, whose rebel slave great-grandmother barely escaped murderous Ball pursuers. Blacks, left with few documents or oral information, can rarely trace their lineage more than a few generations. Ball's discoveries took them back to first contact. The exchange was painful, with stories of stolen 10-year-olds or slaves beaten or killed. "I came bearing terrible tales," Ball sighs...
...have a clever, knowing, "genre-bending" movie that has to dig deeper in the pockets of Rich Man Horror for a payoff to your fright center. Don't look now, but there's a guy with a knife behind you--and you know that because you've had pubescent sex you will die. Audience laughs at movie, at movie's genre, at selves. Everyone thinks they're so damn smart...
...offense has been a little bit fickle," Brandt said. "We like to say that our offense is keyed from our defense. When our offense is struggling, we dig in deeper on the defensive...
Spencer denies the allegations of rampant adultery, with one of his lawyers sneering that Lockwood's team could dig up the names of just three of the earl's alleged dozen mistresses. Meanwhile, the earl, who has always been public about his wife's anorexia and neuroses, has briefed the court on Lockwood's alcohol and drug dependency, stating bluntly, in response to her demands for a sizable settlement, that "I am most fearful that should Victoria receive significantly more money from me than she does at present, she will be unable to resist the lure of the substances...
...like an albatross if a deal acceptable to the Senate cannot be brokered in the next three days ? which in turn depends on getting developing nations on board. "The imperative is to do what we promise, rather than to promise what we cannot do," Gore said in a subtle dig at the European delegation. If Kyoto's promise falls flat, he'll get it from both sides back home for what...