Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boys are trying too hard. . . . For a change, I'd like to hear some programs that go in for horse sense rather than strained nonsense. ... If any of the comedians needs convincing I'd suggest [he] dig up the writings of 'Kin' Hubbard, the oldtime [Indianapolis News] columnist, [who] said almost 40 years ago: ¶ 'The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket...
...became state auditor general, subsequently state treasurer. He had got into an oil business, which prospered. He went broke in the depression and had to settle some $428,000 in debts at 12½?; to 15? on the dollar-an unhappy episode which political opponents dig up regularly at election time...
...being asked to stay while Father Gibson interviewed a man who had been waiting outside for a long time. "The fellow came in," he says, "and told us one of the most pitiful stories of misfortune I have ever heard. After he had finished, I was about ready to dig down and give him everything I had. But Dave Gibson just said to him: 'Kneel down...
...Murder in Mesopotamia, Death on the Nile) was acquired at firsthand, as her first travel book now proves. It is a breezy, completely unsinister tale of a couple of winters she spent before the war in Syria, where her husband, Archaeologist Max Mallowan of the British Museum, went to dig...
Life at La Venta. According to Dr. Matthew Stirling, who headed the dig, the La Ventas were peaceful, since none of their carvings were warlike. They built no cities, but lived in simple thatched huts. They were certainly religious, for the priests who presided over their temples possessed almost all the wealth...