Word: digging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...questions were clear enough, and there were no glaring errors. [Bromobenzene] attempts to nitpick, but he fails to dig anything up," wrote TF Tim J. Dransfield in an e-mail yesterday...
Smith suffered a narrow loss in a January special election to fill the vacant Senate seat of Bob Packwood, who left under a cloud of scandal. In this bitter race, Smith has accused Tom Bruggere of hiring a San Francisco private-investigation firm to "dig dirt." Smith has tempered some of his more conservative positions for this race, but in a state that has elected moderate Senators for the past 30 years, the winner here should still be a moderating influence on Capitol Hill...
...averaged 3.67 kills, 3.25 digs and 1.17 blocks while hitting at a .470 clip in the three contests, including an 18-kill, 15-dig, five block performance in the Brown victory...
Tabloid journalism has played a major role in upending traditional news standards and dividing the audience. While upscale outlets like the New York Times and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer cover the budget battles in Washington and the strife in Bosnia, more mass-audience-friendly publications and TV shows dig for details on Liz Taylor's health and Princess Di's divorce. Each time these tabloid stories seep into the "serious" press, it sparks another round of hand-wringing debate over whether news is what people "want" or what they "need." Many editors were privately dismayed at the massive amount...
Swingers: that word is not so much dirty as stale. It evokes the musty air of Rat Pack swagger, when Frank and Dino passed for arbiters of hip machismo. Man, did the chicks dig it! Anyway, that's what the young L.A. layabouts in Swingers pretend to think, playing it oh so cool with the "babies" and thinking they're classy when ordering pricey Scotch--something with "Glen" in its name. They bop to the knowing bounce of Louis Jordan, Bobby Darin, Basie and Bennett and the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy band, and check out Sinatra Night at the Lava...