Word: dig
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After 45 minutes on the sidewalk, Hendrick and the other Manhattan harpers move inside and dig in. Singings can last two days. Today the group logs just three hours. "Join in a song in sweet accord," advised one of the afternoon's tunes. And so they...
...iconic images of the Holocaust - Ukraine's killings were often terrifyingly intimate. While 400,000 Ukrainian Jews were murdered in concentration camps, about 1.1 million were shot dead at close range. The murders were often in full view of neighbors and acquaintances, many of whom the Nazis deployed to dig and cover the graves, then to distribute the belongings of the dead. The fact that locals sometimes received these possessions, or were ordered to help in the executions, may partly explain their long silence, says Desbois...
...Guennol Lioness" by Alistair Bradley Martin was a brilliant investment. The 5,000 year-old piece of Mesopotamian religious art - presumably of Inanna, goddess of sex and war - was sold at auction by Sotheby's New York last week for a record-shattering $57.2 million. Found at an archaeological dig near Baghdad, it is an extremely rare representation of the goddess - known elsewhere as Ishtar - in animal form. She is one of the earliest of the gods whose names have survived through history. Before her sale, the most expensive piece of sculpture of any period sold at auction...
...Housman and Pusar] were certainly the main reason we had an opportunity to keep it within striking distance,” Amaker said. “I thought they gave a great deal of effort to put us in a position to see if we could dig one out on the road.”In a forgettable first half for Harvard, sophomore guard Jeremy Lin scored the first six points of the game, but he was relatively silent afterwards, finishing with just seven. After BU took the early lead, the Crimson managed to tie the score at 11 apiece...
...think one of the things our team was most proud of is our ability to scrap together, be unselfish, and really dig down deep as a unit,” Pusar said. “It seemed like every possession was somebody new making a play...