Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women went to work last week as drivers and casket carriers in Los Angeles' fabulous Forest Lawn Memorial Park. (Said one: "I'd even dig graves if I had to, and it may come to that...
...Georgia cotton and peanut farmers grumbling: one time farm workers were making $5, $6, $7 a day, and more, at war plants; long-opened cotton was standing unpicked in the fields; peanuts were languishing underground. Farmers, putting their wives and children to work, could not pick all the cotton, dig all the peanuts. They could not even pay farm hands $2 or $3 a day. They did not blame the workers...
Incidentally, your article fails to mention that well-known cousin to the gremlin, the "Hopschneider," who lives on the ski trails in Switzerland and Canada, and emerges suddenly from behind trees in order to cross the skis of runners as they go by. As you dig yourself out and disentangle your limbs, their squeaky laughter can be heard echoing through the pines...
Leaping from their tanks, the crews take no time to wash the desert paste from raw faces. They seize shovels, quickly dig slit trenches just deep enough to lie in full length below the desert floor. Beside each trench goes a bedding roll. Then the tankers turn to washing. They use their water cautiously. One gallon a day has to suffice each man for drinking, cooking, cleaning his mess gear, washing himself...
...result, if the proposal is ever carried through: post-war tourists will have a happy hunting ground. If they dig around picturesque battlefields long enough, they may find many souvenirs, including the bones of Americans who died fighting Hitler, Mussolini and Franco before World War II officially started...