Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bituminous miners ($7 a day for five days, $10.50 for the sixth), and perhaps even a guaranteed annual wage, which was his goal. The Government as an employer could afford to pay any amount, for the Government as a wartime customer needed all the coal the miners could dig. After a suitably decorous interval WLB would approve the new contract (retroactive to April 1), and the mines would be returned to the helpless operators, the contract a fait accompli. (No tears fell for the operators: a February price increase, approved by OPA, took care of added pay for the sixth...
Meaning of the mathematics: short of a miracle, the U.S. this year will either dig up more scrap at home or produce less steel...
...bricks in green porkpie hats, sharp canary-yellow coats, shrunken-ankle pants, and knee-length watch chains which tinkled in the 4 a.m. gloom. Zootsuited or not, they lined up at Manhat tan's Paramount Theater box office and waited. They were jitterbugs, and they were there to dig Harry Haag James, one time circus contortionist, virtuoso trumpeter, and leader of the nation's swing band sensation...
...Australia is a white man's land, and if Japan moves forward again, it is more likely to be in the direction of India, where Asiatics might be persuaded that they want Asia for themselves. Militarily it would call for tremendous expenditures, at a time when Japan must dig in on a long periphery. Raids and smaller invasions along the Allied supply line to Australia would cost less and avail almost as much. Even Australians are not inclined to take invasion seriously...
...Deacon Wheyfish, president of the Blessed to Give Brotherhood, prepared to meet any request for a financial report with: "Damn it, how do you cold-hearted and cold-faced carpers and critics know but what maybe the best training to expand the soul of man is to dig down for money that somebody will waste...