Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veto extinguished the authority and the money for the 90%-of-parity support under farm prices, yet Franklin Roosevelt still retained the authority of the price control bill to use any money he can dig up for food subsidies. Hurriedly, the House farm bloc got up a simple resolution merely extending CCC. The Senate, not in such a hurry, began again to tack on anti-subsidy amendments. And many a Congressman, convinced that subsidies would not work, smiled-and waited...
Fact-minded Administrator Newton has spent a good chunk of his life making things plain. A graduate of Dartmouth (1920), a Rhodes scholar (law), a post-graduate Harvard law student, Newton's first public job as assistant U.S. attorney was to help dig into a $6,500,000 alien property fraud, come up with such plain facts that President Harding's alien property custodian, Thomas W. Miller, was sent to jail. Later, as special counsel for New York State, he investigated sewer scandals, smashed an arson ring, was named special assistant attorney general...
...graves are being dug now by bulldozers-there is no time nor labor available to dig them with shovels. The bulldozers plow back & forth until a space seven feet deep has been scooped out, which is long enough to place eight bodies 18 inches apart. Then into the collective grave small one-foot deep individual graves are scooped out by shovel. Thus, each man lies with seven of his comrades...
Weapons mastered, the final seven weeks drives home how to use them. By doing and redoing under battle conditions, they learn how to attack armored cars and low-flying planes, dig foxholes that will not cave in when tanks grind over them, fight in gas attacks, neutralize mine fields. Three times each class attacks enemy villages with live ammunition...
...biggest advantages TIME writers have over other reporters is the trained researcher each of them has at his elbow-ready to dig out the added facts he needs to write confidently and to make his story tight and precise, without fudging points where his memory is vague. But our researchers would often be at their wits' end for answers without the model reference library we have been building up for them over the past twenty years...