Word: digs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...method was to dig a shaft straight down, sometimes 40 ft. or more, to the deposits; the diggers climbed in and out by bracing their feet and backs against the wall. As shafts went down too closely together, many collapsed; others filled with water. A shanty town sprang up next to the pasture, with a hotel, hundreds of lean-tos and tents. The local dentist kept his tools soaked in cachaga liquor; the baker sold bread at five times the normal price; and a small army of prostitutes paraded around the diggings, lining up appointments...
...something like weeds you dig out of your yard...
...humor not only save the senator from being a windbag, but enable him to establish an intimacy with his listeners. In small groups, he will expound on some subject for a while, suddenly realize that he is beginning to prattle, and punctuate his monologue with a quick self-deflating dig that endears him to his audience. Answering a question at one informal gathering, he waxed almost poetic at some length about the glories of the Senate, finishing with the words, "and there is no other group of 100 men in the world more powerful than the Senate." Then he looked...
Clearly, there are as many ways for a President to transmit news to the press as there are ways for a reporter to dig out his stories...
...route to El Alamein, the Frenchmen sweat and struggle while the German sneers. When they are bogged down in the sand, he refuses to dig. When he begins to unbend and reaches under a seat to offer an injured man a first-aid kit, they clobber him unconscious. Shirtless and wearing German army caps, they join a German troop convoy and narrowly escape disaster when a French P.W. in the convoy recognizes one of the fugitives (France's singing idol, Charles Aznavour) as a countryman. Later, in one fine funny scene, the Frenchmen push...