Word: digs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dig that kind of croonin', chum," sloshed Frank Sinatra, 45, in High Society's drunk scene. "You must be one of the newer fellas," riposted Bing Crosby, 59. That was in 1956. Since then the newer fella has formed his own record company and that kind of croonin' now sounds with the ring of new-minted coin. So in his first long-term record contract since Decca days seven years ago, Bing will do a five-year hitch on Frankie's Reprise label. Beamed Sinatra after a recording session: "With Crosby...
...Doris bubbles her way to the pinnacle of soapy success, Hubby Garner begins to go down the drain out of pure jealousy. The final gurgle comes when -unknown to him-the Happy Soap folks dig a swimming pool for Doris in the backyard where the driveway used to be. That night, whump! splosh! Garner goes down with his convertible as the sound track plays a snatch of sinking-of-the-Titanic music...
...Danny Milland, 23, is launching a television career with his first bit parts. He is a towering 6 ft. 6 in. Says his father Ray: "They're going to have to dig a trench hole for him whenever he's got a short leading lady...
...largest of Brazil's 22 states, Minas Gerais has black mountains of high-grade iron ore, some 35 billion tons at last count, and its rushing brown rivers could generate 15 million kw. of electricity, more than is now produced by the entire TVA system. Its miners already dig 90% of Brazil's iron ore, 95% of its bauxite, beryllium and mica, all of its graphite and nickel, most of its diamonds and gold. Its furnaces and factories lead the country in pig iron, steel and ferrous alloys, rank second in aluminum, cement and lime...
Yglesias has nothing more profound to exhibit than his sensitivity for familial relationships-full of humor and bathos and love. The old sisters yak-yak away like a Greek chorus about their lives, their children and their hopes. "Let us not dig up old regrets," Dolores tells her sisters just before little Jimmy's wake begins. "There are too many of them, and we shall end up fighting for the biggest share. Let us remind ourselves of all the wonderful things in life, for in a moment we shall have to go inside and look into his face...