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5 million to dredge Marina del Rey harbor, $600,000 to remove burros from the desert, $50,000 for a mural in Twentynine Palms, $100,000 to build an international trade center in Tulare County, and $50 million to reinforce levees on the lower Los Angeles River and relieve nearby residents of a federal mandate to buy flood insurance.
Our family get-togethers seem more like a meeting of pathologists, each trying to dredge up more horrific experiences.
Thurmond is so old that it's considered bad form to criticize his sorry record or dredge up his racist past.
The best I can describe the process for me is that it resembles noodling on a piano: I run rhythms and sentences--or maybe not even sentences, the shapes of sentences--across one another, trying out their sounds, and sometimes I get a tune-like combination of sound and syntax that makes me want to go on, extend and refine it, as it comes to dredge sustenance from the great pool of feelings and ideas that accumulates in a life.
Some people have better memories than others, and we can admire those who, despite the extraordinary pressure of being under the klieg lights in a TV studio before an audience, are able to dredge up obscure information in response to quizmasters' questions.