Word: digging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...explain how the atrocity occurred, insist that the report is grossly unfair. They say the attack was not deliberate and attribute the shelling of the U.N. compound to a combination of map-reading error and differing muzzle velocities. But with each effort to backtrack, Israel only seems to dig itself deeper into Qana's moral crater...
Have trouble letting go? Months after losing his nasty lawsuit against Sony Music, George Michael seemed off to a fresh start at DreamWorks. But in a version of his new video, Fastlove, a deejay's headphones are inscribed with a dig at the old boss; they read "Fony...
...nothing perhaps compared with what lies ahead. All around Ted's cabin, FBI agents continue to dig for clues to connect him to the Unabomber. Late last week David and his mother Wanda visited the offices of the federal public defender in Washington. Is David now hoping to shield Ted from the law he gave him over to? A brother's obligations can be a complicated thing...
...group of spectacular objects he found in 1873. "I cut out the treasure with a large knife," Schliemann wrote, "which it was impossible to do without the very greatest exertion and the most fearful risk of my life, for the great fortification wall, beneath which I had to dig, threatened every moment to fall down upon...
Schliemann's brazenness didn't stop there. His original dig was done without a permit from the Ottoman (now Turkish) government, and when he later got permission, it was with the understanding that he would split what he found with the Turks. But he smuggled many objects out of the country. When Turkey sued for the return of Priam's Treasure, Schliemann bought the Turkish share for a fraction of its value. He donated the treasure to Germany...