Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Interested Citizen." The Senate heard the President's message out in silence. To most of them this kind of attack was familiar. House Republicans booed the charge of fraud. The President took a deep dig at House procedure. A plan had been laid to bring up the Worley bill under a rule which would let it be shouted down by voice vote, with no recording of yeas & nays. President Roosevelt suggested that every Congressman should be willing to "stand up and be counted" on this vital issue. He said he felt he was within his rights in suggesting this...
...until August did any reporter even dig up PRC's board of directors : Oil Czar Ickes, the Secretaries of War, Navy, and State, and Foreign Economic Administrator Leo Crowley. But at that time, although Ickes was President, PRC's charter was amended to give Crowley authority even to dissolve the Corporation...
...mean that a given amount of hell invariably produced a given ribbon. To fighting men before and since, the inequities of medal awards have always been a sore subject. The current issue of the official Marine Corps Gazette gives Marine Captain Richard G. Hubler a chance to dig the old subject up again for World...
...neurotic invalid with a vicious streak, who enters into a normal, happy household as a guest, and immediately proceeds to turn it into a veritable hell on earth. It has a dramatic surprise ending. This is all good. To find the faults in the Radcliffe production, one must dig down into the acting performances...
...economic situation is as you possibly imagine-corruption in every department of life, the black market has become a national institution. . . . Tokyo has become a city of troglodytes: holes everyhere. The hospitals are full of broken limbs, as during the nights zealous patriots dig holes into which other zealous patriots fall at dawn. It is excellent first-aid practice but bandages are scarce (doctors have the right to own five...