burrowing

• “At some of these libraries online burrowing is already possible, at others it will be in the near future.”

  June 2007

• “Critiquing both the relentless Eastern drive for success and the insular, self-serving nature of Western academia, this debut feature from opera and theater helmer Chen Shi-Zheng never fully succeeds in burrowing under its protagonist's skin, despite conspicuous effort," writes Justin Chang in Variety.”

  GreenCine Daily: Sundance. Dark Matter.

• “There was work to be done, men to superintend, and operations to direct in burrowing after the erratic pay streak; but his heart was not in the work.”

  The Faith of Men

• “While fears about "burrowing" -- political types sliding into career jobs -- run especially high during presidential-election years, a new study by the Government Accountability Office has found only seven cases of burrowing during the Bush administration, none of them near the 2008 election.”

  The Washington Post: MMS becomes BOE. Oh, wait -- BOEMRE.

• “The Imperial Light Horse were first to hit upon the idea of burrowing into the river-banks.”

  Four Months Besieged The Story of Ladysmith

• “It is called the burrowing owl, and is very small.”

  Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys

• “If you don't have much time, don't have the tools or just don't like the idea of burrowing around in the ground, don't worry: you're catered for, too.”

  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed

• “A 25-year-old male graduate student was arrested on Friday on suspicion of selling tropical plants imported from countries known to be affected by a plant parasite called burrowing nematode.”

  Taipei Times

• “Quotation: As the sun sets on the Bush administration, the survival rite known as burrowing is under way.”

  Double-Tongued Dictionary

• “As the sun sets on the Bush administration, the survival rite known as burrowing is under way.”

  From On High

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