Word: digs
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...absent from Pete Seeger's repertoire. One may call it naivete when he does an imitation of a "Japanese orchestra" by moaning painfully into the microphone for a few seconds--then stamping his foot, explaining "that's when they drop a brick on the floor; I just don't dig that rhythm...
...U.S.S.R. Clearly, we destroy each other, and China wins. Suppose, on the other hand, that a war breaks out between the U.S. and China-what happens then? You Americans drop nuclear bombs on China and kill a few million people, and the other 500 million or more dig in. Mao Tse-tung calls on us for support, and so again the Russians and the Americans destroy each other-and China still wins...
Born Free, by Joy Adamson. Even readers who do not dig cats should enjoy this remarkable, engaging account of how the author-rivaling Androcles-managed to turn a lioness into a household tabby...
...first to set the Bacon thesis really sizzling was an Ohio-born schoolteacher named Delia Bacon, no kin. Bent on digging up the Bard, she invaded Holy Trinity Church, lantern in hand, one night in 1856, only to be appalled by the question of whether she should dig up Raleigh or Bacon instead. Unhinged by this quandary, she died hopelessly insane three years later. In 1888 Ignatius Donnelly, a onetime Congressman from Minnesota, uncorked the following numbers game: on page 53 of the histories in the first Folio he found the word Bacon ("I have a gammon of Bacon"), which...
Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here...