Word: digging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...escape route from Washington fell to naval aide Edward Beach. His assignment was made all the more difficult given the grim prognosis for Washington should it be hit by a Soviet hydrogen bomb. "It would not eliminate the Potomac River," says Beach, "but it would sure raise hell and dig a deep hole where Washington had been. We would have a deep lake there, so shelters in Washington would have been counterproductive. Even if you survived the blast, you'd probably drown." So Beach and others pressed their imaginations for alternate escape plans...
...doomsday government story required Gup to dig even deeper. "I ate a lot of dust," he says, while sifting through reams of official archives. He unearthed documents about how Washington planned to protect the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. During the reporting, Ted thought frequently of his two toddler sons David and Matthew. "I pray that they won't have to grow up under a cloud of anxiety and that all of this will seem exotic and far away to them...
...OPPOSITION RESEARCH UNITS OF THE BUSH AND CLINTON campaigns, which dig up dirt on their enemies, will act as the first lines of offense when the mudslinging starts in earnest. Surprisingly, some "oppo" operatives do talk regularly to their rivals by telephone. What could they possibly have to discuss? "I call to ridicule their pathetic attempts to attack us," says one oppo specialist. "Then we trade insults." Nothing like a little destructive criticism to get the juices flowing...
...while I lived." Despite her reservations, Langdon finally relented. Twain triumphantly wrote to his family, "She said she never could or would love me -- but she set herself the task of making a Christian of me. I said she would succeed, but that in the meantime she would unwittingly dig a matrimonial pit & end by tumbling into it -- & lo! the prophecy is fulfilled." Langdon was wed to Twain for the remaining 34 years of her life...
...coming weeks, as construction workers refill this trench and dig another deep hole from Matthews to University Hall, Stubbs will be working outside. he will be sifting through dirt, collection odd fragments of galls and clay and, perhaps, imagining the last great Yard party...