Word: digging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grand plantation house designed for large-scale entertaining. He wrote steadily, made more and more money, and happily or resignedly spent all of it keeping his deadbeat in-laws afloat. He died at 44, in 1894, having written his own requiem: "Under the wide and starry sky/ Dig the grave and let me lie/ Glad did I live and gladly die ..." McLynn tells his story with grace and skill, and only a dull reader will finish this biography without heading for the library to search out a complete edition of Stevenson's marvelous but now mostly unread short tales...
...That's crazy, I almost went on an archaeological dig and at the last minute I went to summer school," Bresman said...
...McKinney (D-Ga.) and Harry Johnston (D-Fla.) filed a complaint with the House ethics committee, claiming that Jones has a vested interest in proposed congressional reforms. Gingrich spokesman Tony Blankley tried to turn the tables by claiming Johnston is in a group of lawmakers who meet regularly to dig up dirt on the speaker. Gingrich previously was accused of improperly using tax-deductible donations to fund his politically-oriented college course, which airs free of charge on Jones' cable system. The fresh complaint contends that Jones has "substantial interests" in telecommunications reform, cable deregulation, and the large Public Broadcasting...
...stink. Although this may seem self-evident, taking that extra thirty seconds to dig out the CK One or to spritz on some of that air freshener from your bathroom shelf can only help to get you closer to the goal...
...mere picture of a bison or a woolly rhino tells us nothing much. Suppose, France's Clottes suggests, that 20,000 years from now, after a global cataclysm in which all books perished and the word vanished from the face of the earth, some excavators dig up the shell of a building. It has pointy ogival arches and a long axial hall at the end of which is a painting of a man nailed to a cross. In the absence of written evidence, what could this effigy mean? No more than the bison or rhino on the rock at Chauvet...