Word: digging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Governor Huey Long; Weiss, in turn, had been shot by Long's bodyguards. Based on discrepancies between the bodyguards' testimony and bullet marks found on Weiss's bones, among other clues, Starrs concluded that it is more likely that the bodyguards themselves murdered their boss. Now Starrs wants to dig up the father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden, or at least their skulls, to find out whether Borden really did them in with a hatchet...
...palate with a crazy, tangy aftertaste. Just keep listening, sis, I promise you'll get it: play one side, then the other (they're identical), then turn it over again. Your brain will numb; soon you'll leave your old taste standards far behind and learn to dig this fluffy groove...
...prosecutors. Federal attorneys will be able to introduce evidence showing the police were predisposed to react with excessive force -- not just toward minorities but also toward anyone under arrest. In contrast to the earlier criminal case, moreover, federal prosecutors can examine the records of the defendants in other arrests, dig into their personnel files and even probe their conversations for evidence of prejudicial attitudes or a propensity toward brutality...
Fear that compromise is a slippery slope causes Congressional supporters of the Freedom of Choice Act to dig in their heels and insist that permitting any restrictions undercut the legitimacy of the right to choose...
...midge; the English word mosquito, from the Spanish for "little fly," appeared in the 16th century, along with new and nastier New World species. In the 1880s the Frenchman Ferdinand de Lesseps, fresh from the triumph of building the Suez Canal, was utterly vanquished in his heroic effort to dig a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, partly because thousands of the Europeans he brought with him fell victim to mosquito-borne disease...