Word: diggings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program states that "the original music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier" is being used. (Some of what we hear, however, is by Lully, who, to be sure, had been Moliere's composer until a feud parted them.) Since Tufts has gone to the trouble to dig up authentic music and has billed the production properly as "a comedy-ballet," I wish the group had made the extra effort to include the usually omitted prologue and ballet interludes. Tufts then would doubtless have had the honor of giving the first complete performance of the work in this country...
Jordan officials, who inspected a model pit privy set up by ICA, quickly issued a formal request through diplomatic channels, found that ICA was eager to help out. The U.S. developed a plan to furnish three-inch-thick concrete slabs in the proper design. The Jordanians would dig the necessary pits, build optional surrounding structures...
...TERRIFIC. The oil is coming out so fast that I have to get a bulldozer to dig ditches to keep it from running all over." Hearing such dazzling reports, 100 Midwest investors recently plunked down $1,500,000 for shares in tiny Keystone Oil Co. As it turned out, Keystone was more talk than oil. Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Government's watchdog over securities markets, filed charges against Chicago Promoter Harry G. Ames, 61, on 14 counts of mail fraud and failure to comply with SEC regulations. The Keystone case,, coming after the collapse...
...fuddyduddies feel about Dixieland when you were young? How many of you wore bell-bottom trousers and danced the Charleston? How many of you were juvenile delinquents? I wear blue jeans and dig rock 'n' roll. I am not a delinquent...
Tiptoe Through the Tulips. In Trenton, N.J., the Medical Society of New Jersey advised middle-aged amateur gardeners to take it easy: "The aim is to dig flower beds, not graves; the result should be a summer of flowery pleasure, not an eternity of repose...