Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aggression against the Soviet Union by "Germany or any nation allied with her," and provided that the two countries "will consult each other in event of a threat of military attack." Paasikivi and other Finns comforted themselves with this consultation clause, but the comfort was coldish. Moscow could dig up a "threat" any day it had a mind...
...Huntington's magnificent cactus beds, orange groves and flower gardens, stopped to peer at the library's $50,000 Gutenberg Bible, and climbed the art gallery's marble stairs to take whispered popularity polls among the portraits. To San Marino each year come scholars to dig through treasures that range from the Ellesmere Chaucer manuscript (best text of the Canterbury Tales) to the manuscript of Stevenson's Kidnapped...
With the drop in trading, the exchanges argued that that was all they could afford. To pay even the bonus, said Curb President Francis Adams Truslow, he would probably have to dig into the Curb's cash reserve. Keefe threatened to strike, shrewdly waited till the market was on its way up-and brokers had their hands full with heavy trading-to call his members out. But even with the lusty help of the seamen, he fell far short of crippling the citadel of speculation...
Both Joy and Pittsburgh Consolidation tried to keep all details top secret, but some leaked out. The "Joy Continuous Miner," as it is called, is under 25 feet long, weighs less than 20 tons and moves on caterpillar treads. It has powerful cutting arms which first dig into the face of a seam at floor level, then cut their way up to the roof. As it is cut and broken, a conveyer system carries the coal back over the machine directly into cars, in which it is hauled to the surface...
...last week Michigan's well-coached* athletes were singing it as if they meant it. Michigan's basketball team danced around Iowa (51-35) to become champions of the Dig Nine. Then the players made a beeline for Coach Ozzie Cowles, and shoved him under a shower, clothes...