Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took Europe 19 years to learn how to fight Napoleon. ... It took the Marines just three days to learn how to storm an atoll fortress and dig the Japs out. . . . We've got the toughest and smartest fighting men in this world. But as long as the war lasts some of them somewhere will be getting killed. We have got to acknowledge that or else we might as well stay home...
...return to Louisiana and shoot ducks. He talks incessantly about his family of eight children, is openly proud of the fact that five of his six boys are in service. His ever-present companion is a dachshund, Joe, a veteran of the China air lanes. He likes to dig in his garden, pitch for the headquarters' softball team. His indoor game: poker...
...Chennault's men lessens the Jap potential in more active theaters of war. A young colonel of the Fourteenth commented: "We're a thorn in their side. We aren't serious but we hurt. The Japs are like boxers: if they take off their gloves to dig out the thorn, somebody is going to bop them right smack in the face." Supply problems alone will hold down the Fourteenth for bitter months to come...
Ranney's well actually works on the same principle as a coal mine. In coal fields, miners dig a shaft down to the layer of coal, then work horizontally through the layer, cutting the coal away...
Horizontal Man. Ranney reasoned: Why not drill horizontally for oil, as miners dig coal? He designed a"Ranney-well" for oil mining - a vertical, concrete-lined shaft, sunk to the oil level, and a circular chamber at the bottom from which drillers might bore horizontally into the surrounding layer of oil sandstone. By drilling 24 holes, each radiating...