Word: digging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Acting for a group of investors-and without Government permission-Ray started building a small island on the reefs off Elliot Key. He brought out equipment to dig fill out of the sea and, as a homestead, set up a prefabricated hut on his man-made island. When the U.S. contested his legal claim, Ray then argued that the island was outside Government jurisdiction. The reefs, he pointed out, were beyond the three-mile limit of U.S. territorial waters. Ray claimed that international law allows anyone who discovers an oceanic island and colonizes it to proclaim it a sovereign country...
...starter, Waltz blows the top off a mountain; then he goes on to sink an is land and dig a moon crater or two. In Act II, a sequence of absurdist hilarity, the nation's council of generals begins bidding at 2,000 crowns and goes to 1,000,000 in a vain effort to buy Waltz's infernal machine. During the negotiations, these senile clowns play with toy automobiles and sail paper airplanes at one another and into the audience...
...anxieties. Many highschoolers have gone to bed or left for parties without doing any school-work, taking the calculated gamble that they will not have to show up in school the next day. Sometimes the smudging call doesn't come through, and frantic students have to dig by spontaneous excuses to get out of tests. But as soon as The Call comes, academic worries are behind and it's time to head for the groves...
...could dig...
...Making money," he said calmly. "And I dig it." He was the first person I had met who had a sane attitude towards the whole scene. I certainly never would have admitted that I was interesting in making money...