Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...telephone workers of Woodward, Okla., the phone strike ended the moment they could dig out from the debris of last fortnight's tornado (TiME, April 21). While union officials ordered workers to ignore the emergency and stay on strike, 30 union operators rushed back to their jobs. Last week they made the strike's end official, sent in their resignations with a blistering telegram: "Girls refuse to stop. Will work as long as needed. . . . Would be ashamed of a union which would put up pickets in a disaster like this...
Explained Reck: since tuition fees cover only half the cost of a student's education, every extra student means that the colleges must dig deeper into their endowment income to make up the difference. With expenses soaring and the interest rate slumping, the difference is getting wider & wider...
...Apple in a patched-up farmhouse. The misunderstood Miss Allyson and her confused stop-mother, Claudette Colbert, also try hard, but the highlight of the picture is a novel toy that spells out "I love you" whenever somebody spins it. This intriguing device again proves that MGM can always dig up something entertaining--even though it's not always a movie...
...present the Bureau is a part-time affair, but this summer, while others are away at the beaches, the entrepreneurs want to dig in. And when winter rolls around, they expect to be firmly established in their enterprise...
...dig each other - get together, understand...