Word: digging
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Residents of the remote Far East Russian island of Sakhalin desperately sought to rescue their relatives and friends as Russian troops scrambled to dig out thousands of victims of one of the most catastrophic earthquakes in Russian history. The devastating temblor, measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale, hit at 1am on Sunday, leveling the town of Neftegorsk and burying most of the 3,500 residents in the wreckage of brick and concrete buildings. In Neftegorsk, cries of pain were heard amid the rubble, the whole area clouded by thick smoke from fires sparked by the quake. At least...
...first problem is that they are tan. Tan is the color of boredom. It is the color of dry dirt. It is the color of the junk you dig out of your eyes in the morning. There is nothing interesting of significant about the color tan. Note the vowelrhyme with 'Bland...
YOUR DECONSTRUCTION OF PHILIP K. Howard's antiregulatory book, The Death of Common Sense, was right on [Ideas, April 10]. I seriously doubt that Howard wanted to dig too deep into the facts behind his sketchy anecdotes about regulatory mischief. He is working squarely in the tradition of other zealots who promulgate such tales to support their antigovernment agenda. Environmentalists have been sounding the alarm about such so-called horror stories for years, but tragically, these spurious accounts are being recycled into policymaking, and in some cases the falsehoods are retold even after the truth is known. Thank...
...Chester should go back to Arlington andfind something to dig up there," Russell said...
Journalists rarely go beyond the recognition of the obvious effects of these affairs. Contrary to the 1960s and 1970s, we do not dig deep into the "why's" and the "how's" of what we feel and what this all means for our society. Are the issues of domestic violence and the strength of the family which dominate our culture in the 1990s comparable in importance to racism and war which dominated our culture years ago? Journalists and the rest of society seem to say no. I disagree...