Word: digging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard turnovers and poor first-half shooting (.267) allowed Hartford to dig the Crimson a huge hole, but players said the comeback proved that Harvard can play with anyone...
...fair to Cross, a few of Stager's other friends have also imputed to me an imputation of anti-Semitism to him. The most interesting instance of these is Leon Levy, the Wall Street Financier who provides the funds for Stager's Ashkelon dig. Levy and I have known each other for some years, and we met by accident in the lobby of a London hotel only ten days ago. He upbraided me for what he called my "anti-Semitic insinuations about Stager." I was appalled, and told him that this was an invention (maybe his, maybe Stager's) which...
...Times' announcements, while useful for discouraging bigamists, perform other functions. A brisk exegesis, like a successful archeological dig, yields a wealth of information about American culture. The announcements trumpet the spawning and proliferation of a new class, the meritocracy, which journalist Nicholas Lemann defines as "a national personnel system that uses higher education to sort and slot a substantial portion of the population...
...bristly graduate students expounding semiotics and structural Marxism, and returns the fire of central-place theorists with the historicism of a la longue duree. And yet through all of this the logic of his own work, his own work, his capacity to conceptualize and direct the truly significant Big Dig, continues to unfold...
...Edge Man: Send cards to both of your girlfriends. They dig that shit. They might even...