Word: digging
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Deborah Daly, 27, a seasonal fire fighter for the California department of forestry, worked twelve days straight. "I'm not in bad shape, but I'm getting tired," she said, echoing the sentiments of many of her colleagues. After she helped her team dig an emergency firebreak around a threatened house, said Daly, "I thought my arms were going to fall off. But it felt great. Saving houses is a fantastic feeling...
...point last week in the Los Gatos area, the exhausted strike teams, called in from 45 California fire agencies, decided to dig in and turn back the fire along two mountain-ridge roads. More than 150 fire engines and crews numbering in the hundreds lined the paths. "This is where m we're staying put, we hope," said Tim Exline, acting fire chief of the town of Corte Madera in Northern California's Marin County. "We're going to make a helluva stand." Home after home was saved during the night. Said one man whose house remained standing: "Have...
Rescue workers continued to dig through the mud and debris for additional victims, and by week's end had recovered 222 bodies. Altogether, 116 people were still known or believed to be missing...
After a successful Crimson dig, however, a passing error by Harvard gave Rutgers the point. The Scarlet Raiders would take the next two points as well to steal the frame from the Crimson...
...overlay the same lines spoken by various other voices in found audio clips. Recorded readings of “The Jabberwocky” and lines spoken in various languages are followed by vocals singing out-of-order lines from Carol’s poem in “vogt dig for kloppervok.” Some songs consist almost entirely of spoken clips, as in “it never changes to stop,” others draw out and re-map a story solely upon quoted material in “An Animated Description of Mr. Maps...