Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month the U.S. Army let it be known that some of the military-secret-number of U.S.-Australian ground troops had been transferred to New Guinea. Among them were some American Negroes, mostly engineers, who build bridges, make roads, dig ditches. (A large proportion of all U.S. troops in Australia are service troops, e.g., quartermasters...
Just about the biggest advantage a TIME writer has over a newspaper reporter racing for his deadline is the help of a trained research assistant always at his elbow to help dig out the facts he needs to make his stories vivid and clear and factual...
...rousing salute to the Navy and a resounding one for the Air Force. It makes copy of Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, with amateur-night take-offs of Jane Cowl, Joe Cook, Gypsy Rose Lee. And at last it brings Irving Berlin on the stage, to let him dig down into the Yip, Yip, Yaphank trunk and come up with Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning. It is still, after 24 years, the best song in the show. But where everybody, once, had chuckled while humming it, last week it had most people dabbing their...
...long division: an average carrier has 80 planes, 120 pilots, with 100% replacements on shore. Divide the 30,000 pilots the Navy wants in 1942 by 240 and, even allowing for land-based planes and planes on other fighting ships it looks as if someone must dig up a lot of carriers from somewhere...
Your allusion [TIME, May 25] to accepters of "A" gasoline-rationing cards as "meek, mild Milquetoasts" made me hopping mad. If cooperation with the Government in a critical situation denotes a lack of guts, we had better dig up Mr. C. Milquetoast's living counterpart to run the war effort...