Word: dig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After the Senate rejected their demand, though, Washington grew taut with apprehension. What would these idle, ragged men, ghosts of the A. E. F., do next? Police Chief Glassford of the District of Columbia suggested giving them Federal lands to till for a living. Commander Waters said they would "dig in for the winter" and stay "till hell freezes." Red agitators began to work within the ranks. Reports were heard that wives with children were on the march to join their husbands at Bonus City. Police officials hoped the B. E. F. would soon start to disintegrate. One general fear...
Even from Harbin the League Commission could see flames leaping by night and great smoke clouds belching by day from towns north of Harbin fired by Chinese soldiers reputedly under General Ma's command. Japanese soldiers resisting the Chinese attack played a dig-in game, awaited reinforcements. When these arrived they proved to be two Japanese divisions hastily withdrawn from Shanghai. What correspondents called "Japanese nervousness" led to the piling up of sand bag barricades in Harbin streets, the stringing of barbed wire...
Small Dr. Hicks, 42, likes to wear bright shirts and bow ties, to dig in his garden. President of the Mississippi Valley Historical Society, he is an authority on the Populist uprising of the 1890's. With his desire to do more teaching most of his old students sympathize. He has a reputation of never letting a student go to sleep in his classroom, boasts of the athletes he has "reformed" into keen students...
...Alabama!" he heffled in conclusion. "I'd give my life to protect its good name and honor. I'm fighting for the factory girls . . . the farmers . . . the schoolteachers . . . and the boys who go down into the bowels of the earth to dig for coal and iron. . . . I'll fight...
Then General Manager Kent Cooper talked: "Each community requires a supply of intelligence, more necessary in times of depression, perhaps, than in a prosperous era. To dig themselves out of the Depression, people must think, and they cannot think unless they are reliably informed...