Word: digging
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...grow vegetables and other crops. The project has come to a standstill for lack of a few feet of pipe to carry water for irrigation from a nearby stream. Malaria is rampant because camp officials have been unable to persuade the inmates to fill in the water holes they dig in an adjacent stream bed; the puddles are perfect breeding spots for disease-carrying mosquitoes...
Each year undergraduates and their families have to dig deeper to meet rising college costs. With this year's increase of more than $1030 some shovels will hit rock bottom. But admissions and financial aid officials are confident most students believe a Harvard education is worth the strain on their wallets...
...Robert U. Brown, editor of the trade weekly Editor and Publisher, remembers when Tulsa Editor Jenkin Lloyd Jones first used it in a 1948 speech to a convention of editorial writers. "Many an editorial writer can't hit a short-range target," Jones said. "It takes guts to dig up the dirt on the sheriff, or to expose a utility racket, or to tangle with the Governor. They all bite back, and you had better know your stuff. But you can pontificate about the situation in Afghanistan in perfect safety. You have no fanatic Afghans among your readers. Nobody...
...Thursday, the casino was in such chaos that dealers found it almost impossible to do any trading. In a desperate effort to dig out from under the mountainous paper work, the Swiss Gold Pool, which comprises that nation's three largest commercial banks, voted to shut down all trading in gold both Thursday and Friday afternoons. No one seemed to have a guess whether the price in Zurich would shoot through the roof or plummet through the floor when the Swiss market reopens for full and unrestricted business this week...
...metal is melted down, assayed, and formed into bars by the refiners. In the mean time, dealers take bank loans to finance their inventories. But what used to be a wait of a few weeks for payment has been lengthening to four or five months as the smelters dig out from under growing backlogs. One Manhattan dealer bought so much silver and gold, and will now have to wait so long for payment, that he has been forced to negotiate an emergency line of credit to tide him over. The amount: $25 million...