Word: digging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Leigh, Mike. Director. "Secrets and Lies." Improvised performances, stunning cinematography, robbed at the Oscars. Dig...
Hampered by both a small roster and a difficult schedule, the Harvard women's swimming and diving team needed to dig deep this year in order to keep its head above water...
...Dakota plains. More people moved out of North Dakota than any other state in the country, according to a survey by Allied Van Lines last year. It's so cold in the winter that the funeral homes stockpile bodies in special warehouses and wait until the earth thaws to dig the graves. Other places welcome spring by dancing around a Maypole. In North Dakota they have lots of burials...
...would have it, Simon's parents, Dale and Jolene Tucker of Lewiston, Idaho, met an archaeologist at a dinner party. Privately thinking their son would find the reality of excavating to be, well, the pits, they asked her where Simon might be able to look in on a real dig. She told them about Passport in Time (PIT), a USDA Forest Service program established in 1988 that invites the public (at no cost except for providing your own food, camping gear and, at some locations, water) to join in excavations at its sites. Jolene took Simon on his first dig...
...upbringing was outside the U.S. But every two years my family spent summers back home. When I was seven, we stayed on my grandparents' farm outside Springfield, Mo. My brothers, sister and I ran through the fields and swam in the creek. We competed to see who could dig up the biggest potato, who could pick the biggest peach. We built huge forts from bales of hay. We barbecued. Everyone was relaxed--even my father, which was unusual. One day, at summer's end, I sat on my father's lap, grabbed his collar and pleaded, "We have to come...