Word: digging
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...didn't bother to take out a city permit (which would have called for inspection of the job) or to bring timber to shore up his shaft. He just ripped up a patch of concrete flooring near the garage's main support pillar and began to dig. At 18 feet, as he was trying to dislodge a big rock, a cave-in buried him up to the waist in loose sand and gravel. When he tried to wriggle out he discovered that he was trapped; his right leg was doubled beneath him and pinned immovably by the boulder...
...preliminary trial of strength with the government. Because it was largely a test, the unionists refrained from violence and sabotage, and the government's use of martial law seemed enough to contain the situation. But U.S. and British experience had shown that as a practical matter soldiers cannot dig coal, and it was hardly likely that the government could keep 500 million barrels of oil a year flowing out of Venezuela without coming to some sort of understanding with labor. Unless the government could find labor leadership good enough to force them out, Communists would soon be making bigger...
Riding High (Paramount). When famous novelists or playwrights begin to find their ideas flagging, they are usually reduced to mooning wistfully over their early triumphs. But a famous moviemaker in the same plight can simply dig out an old success and do it all over again. Producer-Director Frank Capra has done just that in this remake of his 1934 hit, Broadway Bill. With basically the same Robert Riskin script, at least seven character actors playing their original roles and Capra repeating his crafty directorial touches, the new movie is as beautifully turned a piece of hokum...
...success for that casual age, it was six months before she told her father about it. With remarkable firmness for a girl of that time, she early refused to marry her father's candidate for her hand; later she missed a shot at a prayer-reading super-respectable Colonel Dig-by; finally at 41 she had enough gumption to marry an almost penniless French emigre. She was a strange mixture of the prudise and the unconventional, though admittedly far more of the former...
...Sterling for a while, "because I'm not in a position to get too serious, and we were seeing each other, y'know, every five minutes." For weeks she had been showering Sterling with gifts and public displays of affection, and had had her friends trying to dig up better jobs for him. Openhandedly generous, Betty gives heavily and anonymously to charities, has given cars to her mother and her ex-secretary, once gave her hairdresser a mink coat. But she never mixes generosity with her career. De Sylva, who, after a long illness, has been trying...