Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grassland he could feel the presence of Portuguese, Germans, British and Boers. These white people sent emissaries to his court bearing gifts of champagne, brandy and sovereigns. Afterwards, they always asked Lobengula if he would kindly sign a piece of paper called a "concession." which permitted them to dig in the ground like children, and to open little stores. Lobengula signed a few concessions; then he got nervous and wrote to ask Queen Victoria if it was a wise thing to do. "It is not wise," she replied, "to put too much power in the hands...
...Japanese must expect to live a highly restricted life for the next 50 years or longer, as they dig themselves out of the catastrophe their war has brought upon them. For them it will be hard, economically and socially, but they will have to pay that price. The power of the U.S. in the western Pacific is already too strong to permit their going to war again in the foreseeable future. But the Japanese have never been told, even in general terms, that such a restricted life need not mean U.S. domination of their every affair, need not mean everlasting...
...Boss Harold Ickes dashed this hope. The U.S., said he, will fall short by some 37,000,000 tons of meeting its own needs. Result: coal shipments to Europe, now 500,000 tons a month, will be stopped altogether in September. If Europe is to get coal, it must dig...
...MARCH OF TIME, passing its tenth anniversary, enters its second decade ready to dig far deeper into far more complex subjects and to handle each issue as one complete story with beginning, middle, end-a story which will show not only what happened but also why it happened and what it means...
...site lay somewhere near the modern town of Heliopolis, a Cairo suburb. But Professor Herman Junker, in a recent Berlin lecture, advanced a new theory: he had found an old tomb inscription placing Heliopolis near Helwan, an ancient town on the Nile south of Cairo. He advised Egyptologists to dig in a large necropolis (cemetery), well-known to archeologists, near Helwan...