Walking a few yards from the pit, I kicked disgustedly at the dirt.

我从沙坑里走出几码远，气愤地踢着沙土。

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The children apparently were trying to retrieve a small "child-like pickaxe" at the bottom of the sloped pit when the dirt wall collapsed on them before 6 p.m.

CNN: Searchers find bodies of children buried by wall of dirt

The father of one of the young men has sent pit-bull detectives to dig up dirt on Copeland to cool his prosecutorial ardor.

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