Word: digging
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...warden with the horrifying news that he had helped bury three inmates in the corner of the prison fields several years earlier. The next day, Murton selected a group of men and, accompanied by newspaper reporters and television crews, set out on a rainy morning to dig for the graves. By the middle of the day, three coffins had been unearthed and Murton figured that as many as 200 other graves had been dug in the field. Each grave represented a prisoner who had been murdered by prison authorities and discreetly buried...
Soviet oil-drilling equipment is estimated to be about 40 years behind that found in the West. The standard Soviet turbodrill, for example, bores much more slowly than American equipment. It takes a Soviet team 14 months to dig down 10,000 ft.; U.S. drilling teams can reach that depth in 34 days. Seismic technology, essential for exploration, also lags far behind. The best Soviet gear probes down to 7,000 ft.; U.S. equipment is more accurate and goes down to at least 10,000 ft. Given the state of their industry, says Meyerhoff, "there is simply no way that...
...advanced pledges totalling more than $70 million--close to the entire $82 million raised during the last major fund drive in 1958--aren't easing worries that alumni financial shovels may not dig deep enough. See Section...
...American ideal of endless hospitality and refuge presupposed perpetually expanding resources. Now, says the argument, an emerging order of scarcity mandates self-interest, selectivity, limitation, exclusion. No more the profligate America with arms open in Whitmanesque embrace, ready to issue a shovel to anyone strong enough and willing to dig...
...problems of mining, moving and burning it. For one thing, no one really knows what the long-range effect on the environment will be of sharply stepped up coal use in the decades ahead. Moreover, the price tag for coal development will be staggering: about $1 trillion worldwide to dig the mines and then build the necessary trains, ports and other transportation facilities. The U.S. coal industry's feisty, strike-prone, 230,000-member United Mine Workers Union, which crippled Eastern U.S. mines for 110 days during the winter of 1977-78, has also created doubts among potential customers...