Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desperate effort to stave off annihilation. Two Jap shells made near misses on our amphtrack, pelted its sides with shrapnel. When we reached the beach another mortar a few yards distant spouted bloodily against the smoky island background, killed one Marine, wounded two others. We had to dig for cover in a ditch because our front lines were only 25 yards inland...
...Palau. On the ground, where Japs dig in and wait to be rooted out with grenade and bayonet, no such overwhelming combat superiority is possible. Yet more than 10,000 Japs had been killed on Peleliu and Angaur in the southern Palaus. (By last weekend seven other nearby small islands had been occupied, including Ngesebus and Kongauru.) Resistance simmered down to one small pocket on Angaur and "Bloody Nose" Ridge on Peleliu...
Said Jinnah: "I regret to say that I have failed in the task of converting Mr. Gandhi. . . ." Said Gandhi: "The failure is only socalled. It is an adjournment sine die" Said Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar, who arranged the meeting: "I'll begin to dig in the river again when...
...Army suffered during the early days of the battle of Normandy. The Wehrmacht was now being reinforced by the old, the young, the deaf, the wounded (only partially recuperated). Heinrich Himmler was organizing his home guards to back up the line. He also visited the front, ordered troops to dig new positions, to remain in them until killed or ordered to retreat...
...Dig That. In Oklahoma City, the McCracken children dug foxholes in the back yard, unearthed 110 gallons of gas buried there more than twelve years...