Today their surviving relatives, carrying shovels, go to dig for their remains, most of which were very likely dumped into the ocean.
Their cultivation -- the source of Berlin's current asparagus mania -- offers intriguing evidence that Germans are no longer ready to dig for their supper if Poles are prepared to do the digging for them.
The iPhone's beauty alone would be enough to prompt certain members of the iPod cult to dig for their credit cards.
American badgers (Taxidea taxus) create localized disturbances in tallgrass prairies by digging for their rodent prey; digging produces mounds of dirt 0.2 0.3 square metre (2.2 3.2 square feet) in size.
Rezene Tesfamariam, the Haiti director of charity Plan International, said people were using their bare hands or basic tools such as shovels and pick-axes to dig for their loved ones.
B1 RECOVERY EFFORT -- Mayor Giuliani doubled the number of firefighters -- to 50 -- assigned to dig for their colleagues' remains in the trade center rubble, in an apparent effort to calm a rancorous dispute.
Picture "The Great Escape," that terrific, fact-based World War II movie in which muscular Charles Bronson, sassy Steve McQueen and a batch of other big stars were digging for their lives, trying to tunnel their way out of a German prisoner-of-war camp.
Historian Ernle Bradford captures the drama in his book The Great Siege: Malta 1565, where he describes how Turkish sappers and Maltese counter miners, digging for their lives, often broke through into the enemy galleries, where "before either side could withdraw to fire their charges, Christian and Moslem came to grips with pick, shovel, and dagger".
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani yesterday doubled the number of firefighters -- to 50 -- assigned to dig for their colleagues' remains in the World Trade Center rubble, in an apparent effort to calm a rancorous dispute that has pitted firefighters against the police and the city.
