Word: burrows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finding the best deal on airfares can be an exercise in frustration, largely because no human being can fully comprehend the airlines' byzantine pricing system. Yet somewhere within that maze, savings are available--especially if you're able to burrow down deep into the Internet or participate in online ticket auctions. As you do so, though, remember that traditional travel agents, who have the time to research all possibilities for you, still have a role to play...
...masochists stuck together, then something good might happen. Unfortunately, those lonely hearts out there do not sport any recognizable labels like DKNY or Tommy Hilfiger, so we burrow deeper and deeper into our own graves. Maybe I'm not giving other people enough credit. Maybe everyone is a lonely, bored masochist just like me, but is afraid of letting anyone know lest a revolution be born greater than anything Marx could whip...
Napoleon thought of one, but not until 192 years later would a tunnel under the Channel linking England and the Continent be finished. Beginning on their respective shores, teams of French and English sandhogs used 1,000-ton boring machines to burrow through the 24 miles of chalk, clearing 20 million tons. The two sides...
WASHINGTON: Bad news for the White House: Ken Starr thinks he's Joe Friday. "I've always been a big believer in that show... that Jack Webb was in, 'Just the facts ma'am,'" Starr said Thursday. He was happy to use the recent Paula furor to burrow deeper into the role he relishes: That of the tenacious policeman on the trail...
...returned from a Himalayan expedition, French explorer-anthropologist Michel Peissel and British photographer Sebastian Guinness say they have located the gold-digging ants on Pakistan's Dansar plain near the tense 1949 cease-fire line with India. The "ants," it turns out, are actually marmots, cat-size rodents that burrow in a gold-bearing stratum of sandy soil a few feet underground. Peissel believes Herodotus' confusion came from the ancient Persian word for marmot, which means mountain...