Word: digging
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...best of the living English novelists (E. M. Forster, Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen, Henry Green) write with intelligence, wit and moral purpose. They are deeply concerned with the world and its fate. But they can seldom dig into the insides of ordinary human experience, reveling in its meat and marrow, the way the old boys did. By comparison with the comic expansiveness of a Dickens or the moody intensity of a Hardy, they seem merely to be giving life a quick, light-fingered skim...
...general, the Journal frowns on sensationalism. Says President and Editor J. Donald Ferguson: "Circulation will balloon up just as well when it rains and people buy papers to put on their heads as when you dig up a good scandal, and the boost will last just about as long...
Last week, convinced that big-scale mining of taconite was feasible, Republic Steel Corp. and Armco Steel Corp. joined hands and began to dig in. On a 50-50 basis, they bought out Reserve Mining Co., which owns leaseholds on 17,000 acres of taconite. Republic and Armco agreed to build a $60 million ore-processing plant near Beaver Bay, on Lake Superior's North Shore, and a 47-mile railroad to the taconite mines. The immediate production goal: 2,500,000 tons of taconite ore a year. Ultimately, the two companies plan to spend $100 million more...
...well for two reasons. It had been made where the North Koreans had not suspected we would hit in force. And the superb sea-air-land teamwork, far smoother than any I had seen in World War II Pacific campaigns, had never given the enemy a chance either to dig in his troops adequately or to bring up reinforcements...
Other species are not so easy to please. Some demand deep privacy, or trees to climb, or earth to dig in, before they feel "at home." Some have peculiar demands. For instance, the slow loris (a primitive primate) marks out its territory, as many animals do, by the scent of its urine. So every time its cage is cleaned, the loris feels dispossessed. It "has to drink incredible quantities of water straight away," says Dr. Hediger, "and sprinkle the nice clean floor systematically just like a watering cart...