Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep passions alive, the Communists Arrange a "reburial demonstration" almost every week. They dig up a Partisan killed over a year ago in the fighting for Trieste, and take his body to a cemetery on the other side of town for a spectacular reinterment...
When he rented a cottage in the hinterland for the summer, Payson S. Wild, Jr., associate dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and professor of Government, did so with the idea that his landlord was going to dig a garbage disposal pit on the grounds...
...trail last week was Dr. Frank C. Hibben of the University of New Mexico. In 1941 he followed the trail to Alaska, where he found the characteristic Folsom dart points. This summer he will dig in Saskatchewan. His dream is to ransack Siberia, where the earliest Americans presumably came from...
...veteran from the Asiatic-Pacific theater, and I'm tired of war; but not too tired, now or ever, to fight for freedom for myself and all other peoples, at home or abroad. Out there I used a gun; back here I use a pen. Let's dig out our local fascists before we all have to trade our pens in on our guns again...
...food shipments to Poland. The loan followed close upon Washington's suspension of a $90 million Polish loan; Washington had charged that Poland had failed to give the U.S. full information on its foreign economic agreements (especially with Russia). Devastated Russia (see FOREIGN NEWS) was willing to dig into her own depleted pockets to buy neighborly good will. Stanislaw Szwalbe, Poland's First Vice President, spelled out the Polish-Russian maneuver: "Closer cooperation with Russia becomes the more important ... in connection with the difficulties in establishing economic relations with the Anglo-Saxon countries...