Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Homer Thomas, junk dealer: "He comes as near writing like a man talking as anybody I've ever read. Ernie's not afraid to get over there and dig this stuff...
...were told to dig in. ... We were seven miles up too far. Right up by the enemy. . . . The enemy artillery was whizzing over our heads. Machine guns were firing at us. ... They blowed our kitchen up and it burned, killing one of our cooks and mess sergeant. I layed in the hole for twelve hours. Our artillery shot at us. Our tanks shot at us. ... It was getting dusk and our tanks and artillery finally drove the enemy out of town. So that night we went back about five miles and ate and slept...
Georgie Auld brings his two vocalists, Kirk Wood and Kay Little, and the committee expects to dig up some nice surprises for intermissions. High punch will be served at 11 o'clock or there-abouts in the back room...
Felt Necessities. Privately, the 27-year-old ex-soldier had other views about his experience. "We [soldiers]," he said, "have learned that whether a man accepts from Fortune her spade and will look downward and dig, or from Aspiration her axe and cord and will scale the ice, the one and only success which it is his to command is to bring to his work a mighty heart." But when Emerson talked to him passionately of the work of reconstruction that lay ahead, young Holmes felt no crusader's impulse. "Merely, he desired to use his brain, drive...
...station, a most unusual event, has been scheduled for next Saturday, May 13. For the benefit of the very worthwhile Navy Relief, the tea dance (1600-1800) will be held at Potter. Class morale officers will be taking contributions for the next ten days, and the motto is "Dig deep...