Word: unearthly
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...usually a bar. Fowler's personal idol and friend was Alfred Damon Runyon. Despite his Broadway camaraderie, Runyon was a brooding, lonely man, and there were distinct traces of rube in his makeup. He believed that to count as a New York know-it-all, he had to unearth a champion heavyweight. Over the years he maintained a series of fighters who ate like lions and fought like lambs...
...began burning away the top layer of snow. A piece of tin foil-perhaps from the fresh roll of film in the camera-turned up; the melting snow ran off to reveal blood stains. A policeman with a broom lightly swept snow from the spot in an attempt to unearth footprints. He found none. Police squads began checking reports about an auto that had been seen at the head of the trail. The film in the camera revealed only smiling photos of Frankie Murphy and Mildred Lindquist, taken by Lillian Oetting...
...minuscule village of Sart in Turkey has been the scene of frenetic excavations. Under the field directorship of George M. A. Hanfmann, professor of Fine Arts and Curator of Classival Antiquities at the Fogg Museum, archaeological experts from Harvard and Cornell have led Turkish workmen in an attempt to unearth the remains of the famed ancient metropolis of Sardis...
...well." At one point in the story Cassidy finds a cache of Irish whisky; Author Stuart's style resembles it-warming in small doses only, smoky and unpredictable. Where Eva moves to her promised land with oversure aim, Cassidy never quite makes it. He stops here to help unearth a war-rare Finnegans Wake from the rubble, or just to lean against tired oars in a suburban outing pond. He also pauses to ponder a still-unclear conscience. But, getting nowhere in particular, he still manages to leave Eva behind by a few paces of poetic insight...
...TIME'S editors and correspondents gather the week's news, they unearth many an item that might make an "exclusive" headline were TIME a daily newspaper. But TIME, being a weekly, does not make a play for the exclusive story (it might not last); and TIME is not content to deal with mere "headline" items (it's the whole story that counts). Each week TIME'S "front of the book" (NATIONAL AFFAIRS, FOREIGN NEWS, THE HEMISPHERE) deals with stories that have been published in newspapers and broadcast on TV and radio. But much in TIME...