Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smoky (The Weavers; Decca). These strong-lunged folk singers take to the hills once more with plenty of pay dirt already in sight...
...five months, all went well. Then the uterus slipped through the abdominal rupture. Izene Hawley did not go to a doctor and didn't intend to. She cleaned the house, four miles outside Canon City, washed and ironed clothes for two small boys with an affinity for dirt (the older children were away from home), cooked for her husband and fed the chickens...
...whistled over the ford, toward the marines advancing from the south and the ist Cavalry's tankers. A chow line around the ist Cavalry armor abruptly disappeared as the men climbed in and buttoned up. In the marine area the cry for a medical corpsman was heard, and dirt began to fly from entrenching tools...
...another, offering pointers. A few familiar faces dot the middle of the infield. At second, regular Tom Cavanaugh is battling it out with small but sure-handed sophomore John Canepa. The double-play combination runs off smoothly when Captain Johnny White steps in at shot to play the uneven dirt floor like a professional...
...with bits of scrap iron stolen from the prison workshop. Crawling painfully along the cramped tube, he carried the dirt out in his clothes and flushed it down the cell toilet. Midway, fresh-water seepage formed a narrow chamber high enough for a man to stand in. He matted it with old clothes and rags to prevent a cave...