Word: digging
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...site--after Washington ponied up some extra food aid--but when the inspectors arrived, all they found was an empty hole. With that incident in mind, U.S. officials last week cast a skeptical eye on new satellite images of the North Koreans hard at work on another big dig. Traffic around the mouth of a tunnel has intensified recently, and heavy equipment has been spotted hauling materials, possibly including cement, into the hole, according to a U.S. official briefed on the latest intelligence. That could mean technicians are plugging the shaft to conduct an underground test. Or not. "Could...
...first time in 50 years that people can actually walk from downtown Boston to the sea, now that the former elevated I-93 highway, previously referred to as ‘the other Green Monster’ because it was painted green, has been replaced by the Big Dig...
...Imagine a human head inside [a] cage fastened by four titanium puns that dig into the skull,” Kumin writes in “Inside the Halo.” Initially, Kumin was rendered a quadriplegic by the accident...
Oppenheimer became the director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, which was famous for hosting Albert Einstein, but he still faced the wrath of his enemies. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover urged his agents to dig up anything incriminating, and they returned with a far-fetched report that Oppenheimer “had homosexual tendencies.” The FBI wiretapped his phones. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) member Lewis Strauss rabidly pursued Oppenheimer’s downfall too after Oppenheimer humiliated him during a Senate hearing. And finally there was Teller, “the father...
There is still time before I need to warm-up, so I try to dig deeper into my store of baseball memories. Now it’s August of 1992, and I’m on vacation at the beach, watching Kevin Gross of the Dodgers throw a no-hitter against the Giants. I had no idea at the time, but I was truly witnessing history—Gross became the first of three pitchers named Kevin to no-hit the Giants in the 1992-2003 period, the other two being Brown and Millwood...