Word: digging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boys told themselves, "Let's get on the radio, pretend it's John's basement and have some fun." Sometimes they fiddle with (or bollix up) the chord structure of the original tune. On a few songs they finesse the lyrics (George's vocal on Roll Over Beethoven alters "Dig these rhythm and blues" to "Dig these heathen blues") or finically polish the grammar (John's "You've really got a hold on me"). Some of their covers (Young Blood, Johnny B. Goode) sound sluggish, anemic next to the originals. But Paul's raveups -- his countertenor superscreaming on Long Tall...
...charges of unconstitutional conduct lack merit. Furthermore, they were applied quite selectively in this case, for no good reason. Question 9 should be allowed to take effect as called for under state law. The ability of the losing side to dig up procedural technicalities is no reason for the stalling of a policy change approved by a majority of the people. Democracy cannot be put on hold indefinitely...
This film's documentary format begs a certain ethical issue. How can the three film-makers shoot a scene of the Agee family living in the dark, a consequence of their not being able to pay the monthly electric bill? Did the camera operators feel no moral imperative to dig into their own pockets and keep the lights on in the Agee home...
...last spring, the city board of aldermen fined the university for its plan to dig a tunnel under College St., which runs through the center of town, to connect the plants' steam and chilled water systems...
...even been willing to go after fellow Republicans when they weren't sufficiently radical, once calling Bob Dole "the tax collector of the welfare state." Gingrich insists now that he will have no trouble working with Dole, though he manages to do it in a way that delivers another dig. "He's learning," Gingrich says. "He's maturing." Dole answers with the patience of a man who has dealt with pugnacious pups before. "Newt's got a lot of ideas," he says dryly. "Maybe three or four for every one of mine...