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She was all by herself in the darkness, on the side of the West Side Highway, as we stood to cheer the workers who were barreling downtown in trucks to begin the dig-out, and to see if they could find someone still alive.

We'll Never Get Over It, Nor Should We Peggy Noonan 2011

The big blizzard may be over for the Mid-Atlantic states, but the dig-out is just beginning.

Maryland Gov.: 'A lot of digging out to do' 2010

Put down the shovels: After a weeklong dig-out at the University of Minnesota's TCF Bank Field, 50,000 fans will enter to watch the state's first outdoor NFL game in 30 years.

Outdoor Football Is Back in Minnesota 2010

Hundreds have worked four-hour shoveling shifts, and the oddly hypnotic webcast of the dig-out is an online sensation.

Minnesotans Tackle Shovel-Ready Project 2010

It's dig-out day for areas of New England socked by a winter storm.

CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2008 2008

It will be a mid-April dig-out for a lot of people.

CNN Transcript Apr 15, 2007 2007

Jesse and Mary Arm managed to get on the same crew for the dig-out; it's not like Tehuantepec here in Tapachula, they were far enough away so that it was no more than an unusually bad hurricane, and even with the Army not showing up, most of Puerto Madero managed to evacuate itself before the storm surges hit.

Mother Of Storms Barnes, John, 1957- 1994

Thirty miles before he earthed, the dogs running breast-high every yard of it, and the very devil of a dig-out!

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

British Friends into the new Gold-country, and show them the mines; nowise to dig-out and exhaust its wealth, which indeed remains for all time inexhaustible.

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

So goes the story of the great suburban dig-out, as the larger municipalities across the Chicago area reported that plow drivers had been working 12-hour shifts since Tuesday, allowing them to clear 75 percent to 95 percent of snow from main roads by Thursday and begin clearing turn lanes, alleys and cul-de-sacs.

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