Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boiler maker, laid down the Party line. Said he: "Open the Second Front. Increase production. Strengthen the Anglo-Soviet alliance. . . . The trade union official who said 'Let the strike continue was not helping the workers. Strikes in this situation are ... helping the Fascists to build the gallows and dig the sandpits in which they execute the cream of the working class whenever they conquer a country...
Bored. In Albuquerque, Wilbur Soocay, caught trying to dig his way out of jail, explained that he had nothing else...
...prying eyes of U.S. aircraft on patrol; to drag men from vital war factories to fight the fires. Fire-fighting manpower was at a low ebb. The draft had cut deeply into the ranks of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Soldiers and sailors banded together with hastily recruited citizens to dig trenches, fell trees...
Short rations, however, do not mean that Britain is running out of food. Actually stocks are greater now than they were two and a half years ago. But Lord Woolton, a successful department-store tycoon before he became Food Minister, knows that it might be fatal to dig into surpluses now. Said he last fortnight: "We are doing our best to keep you alive until the war is over. You will get thin but we are doing better than the Germans." (Actually most Britons are already thinner - as much as ten pounds...
From Camp Blanding, Fla. to Fort Lewis, Wash, the U.S. Army plugged at battle training. The emphasis was on operations of the battalion Majors, younger and slimmer than the Army had seen since World War I, led their outfits far into the field to march and dig in combat exercises. The Army, after the biggest field maneuver ever, in 1941, was preparing for field exercises...