Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bloke who complains can dig it himself," he answered. "Those Government bastards talk a lot-but I notice they don't come near the bloody pit face. Scared maybe...
...need more food and more pay-and more to buy with the pay-before we'll dig more coal. Even with what you can earn, there's little to buy in the shops, that's worth buying, that is. Everything good goes for export. Well, they'd better send some of it to mine towns, if they want us to send coal to them. That's the export drive I want...
This Friday well over a hundred Princeton football and soccer players will arrive in Cambridge to dig in for the weekend, but no representative of their hosts will meet them, see that admission is provided at the dances, or even assure decent living quarters. Among traditional rivals, who are supposed to be friendly ones, it does seem strange that such a neglect of the amenities exists...
...girls who dig for gold...
...decision. Unused UNRRA funds could carry Europe (principally Italy and France) to Dec. 1. Meanwhile he was asking the Appropriations and Foreign Relations committees of both Houses of Congress to come to Washington. To see Europe through the winter, the President estimated that the U.S. would have to dig up $580 million. How the U.S. did it, he would leave up to the committeemen...