Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Political Maturity. When G.I. bull sessions dig deepest, they all run up against one thorny question: just what are we fighting for? No one searches any harder for the answer than the man who is doing the fighting. But here is most apparent the characteristic U.S. lack of political education, the failure of both Government and Army to define for the fighting men valid political objectives. Both the German and Russian armies have taught their soldiers better, whatever the lesson...
More Snow & Ice? Whether the 72-hour embargo had given the railroads time enough to dig themselves out of their trouble was still a question this week. Long trains of empties were snaking across the bleak landscape, headed away from the congested terminals. Dozens of passenger trains were canceled, and their high-wheeled engines ignobly coupled to strings of empty boxcars. By week's end the roads hoped to have caught up again, unless...
...want to build a house, water a lawn, dig a can of beer out of my own refrigerator, get elected to a school board. I want to dig my roots into a community and regain the feeling of continuity I lost a long time...
...Missouri flows by Confederate Gulch and Montana Bar in the Big Belt Mountains. Exiled to the mountains during the Civil War, Confederate prisoners went prospecting. When the gold rush began, a greenhorn asked a bearded old prospector where he should dig. The old man spat, pointed to the least likely-looking place he could see, and said, "Try that bar yonder." The greenhorn scooped up panfuls of clean gold...
...their fists, having run out of ammunition. Others, bypassed and trapped, lived for days on raw potatoes. The situation looked bad when the two German prongs merged in one bulge. It seemed the enemy might reach the great sweep of the Meuse from Liège to Sedan, dig in behind the river...