Many died of disease. After more than a month of digging, engineers decided that the canal would not work.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

The settlers had plans to remove water from the area and in the eighteen eighties developers began digging drainage canals.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Hi Everyone! We are here digging up soil, because we are about to plant a garden."

VOA: special.2009.11.27

Muse Opiang studied how echidnas eat, by digging in the earth with their long noses to find worms.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

During those long summer days, The Luck was carried up the mountain to the place where the men were digging for gold.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

"I'm at home,digging in the dirt, or doing something that is very close to the Earth, because that's where I know how to survive."

VOA: special.2009.06.07

In nineteen sixty-nine, scientists began digging at one area of La Brea called Pit Ninety-One.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

One of these companies continued to make a profit digging gold until nineteen sixty-six.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

He told the men to put down their guns and take up digging tools.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Huge digging machines and crushers were needed to get the gold from the rock.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

By this time, the Union soldiers had become experts at digging canals.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

But its director,Gordon Watts, is not digging for the artifacts.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

New equipment was invented for digging deep wells.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

"When we moved to the city, I was glad to find on this block that there was a little garden where we could become involved, where my son could experience digging and growing things.

VOA: special.2011.04.29

It also included the digging of waterways.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

Authorities say heavy digging equipment is headed to the worst-hit areas of western Java, but time is running out for scores buried under collapsed buildings and landslides.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

They are small-scale workers, digging in surface pits which have already been mined.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

"What we see that because the supply of the gold is depleting, that's why the cost of digging the gold out of the earth is very high."

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

We need to make sure that all Americans, not just the folks who happen to work on Wall Street, feel that we are digging ourselves out of the hole,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

"When unemployment is 9.7 percent, when we are still digging ourselves out of an extraordinary recession, people are going to be frustrated, and they are going to be looking to the party in power to try to fix it.

VOA: standard.2010.02.06