Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Regimental Ball still lives in our case-besotted heads. Well, why not? It was quite a shin-dig. Naturally all the boys from the South flocked to the affair, it being held in the GEORGIAN Room...
...months later he enrolled as a theological student at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary for its stepped-up winter and summer courses. As a theological student, he says, he "had to dig plenty hard." Instead of riding subways to Wall Street, he kept taxis shuttling back & forth between the Seminary and C.C.N.Y. where he continued to teach. Later he added courses at General Theological Seminary where study schedules fitted in better with his heavy professorial duties...
...have been on the police beat. They help on every major Government bureau beat and on two -OPA and Agriculture-women alone represent one major press association. The editors' consensus is that they do remarkably well. A girl reporter at the Interior Department was first to dig out the "Big Inch" faulty-pipe story. The Associated Press's young Flora Lewis was 24 hours ahead on the State Department's embargo of oil shipments to Spain. The girls contend that the traditional greeting of officials at press conferences -"Good morning, gentlemen"-is no longer...
Tired, Lackadaisical, Lustless? Officers, noting the popularity of these plugs, put them to work kidding soldiers' deficiencies-such as sleep: "Do you wake up in the morning with bags under your eyes, tired, lustless; do you do K.P. with no fervor or dig a lackadaisical latrine? Then try our product spelled...
Like a Fox. On Bougainville Island, his pals laughed and bet Private Roy L. Webb $80 that he could not dig a foxhole eight feet wide, four feet deep, and ten feet long in four hours. He tossed out the 19 tons of sand in three hours and 56 minutes...