Word: digging
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...seen Anna Rosenberg at meetings of the Communist-front John Reed Club in New York in 1935 and 1936, stuck to his story even when he was led in to confront Mrs. Rosenberg and she denied his charge in every detail. From then on, the committee began to dig up a veritable sea gull's nest of rotting political fish heads...
...smokehouse, and holes would be dug and everything thrown in pell mell. Then we would begin to imagine that because we knew where those things were, the first Yankee that appeared would know, too, and often we would go and take them all up from there and dig another hole and put them in that; so that our yards began to look like graveyards. It is very funny to think of now, but it wasn't funny then...
Centuries of British mining have exhausted promising seams, extended tortuous runways miles underground, forced workers away from the dull, dangerous pits to other work. So archaic and complicated is the system that only 25% of Britain's mine workers directly dig coal, against 70% in the U.S. In the time it takes one British miner to haul five tons of coal to the surface, one Hollander hauls 20 to 25 tons, one American 50 tons...
...Naturally," explained El Tiempo with a sly dig at Colombian President Laureano Gómez, "all this has nothing to do with us here in Colombia. But this kind of hagiolatry might spread the length and breadth of the continent with the appearance of further saints of this type. Perhaps the canonization of Saint Odría of Peru and Saint Trujillo of the Dominican Republic already is in the works. When the day comes that there are five or seven heavenly governments in this hemisphere, it will be the last bell for democracy...
...opening last week in Greenwich Village's cavernous Cafe Society, the joint was jammed-but not with the intellectuals who used to lounge at the bar and dig the jazz. With Tallulah Bankhead to help lead the cheering, Joe Bushkin had become a darling of the Cadillac-convertible...