Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lectures, considerable reading, dinners, and many conversations supply the bulk of their time. Lectures are not as popular as might be supposed; the men have not the time to follow a subject comprehensively through a series of lectures. They prefer instead to go off on their own and dig up the ideas in which they are particularly interested...
...hear the closest thing to Coleman Hawkins outside of the Hawk himself. As a matter of fact, I was down there the other night with a tenorman whose opinion I respect tremendously, and after hearing McRae on Body and Soul, he remarked that even Hawkins would have to dig hard to keep up with that kind of jazz. Maybe I'm all wet. Maybe they'll be calling him "Miller's Folly," but I may as well go overboard completely and say that Roscoe McRae is the musician of the year, so why don't you do yourself a favor...
...Emergency Powers Defense Act giving the Government full control over everybody and everything. As Minister of Labor, horny-handed Ernest Bevin could -if he chose-walk into London's stuffy Athenaeum Club, tap the Archbishop of Canterbury on his bald pate and order him to Sussex to dig trenches. Having, as the London Times put it, placed "our ancient liberties ... in pawn for victory," Britons wondered what their Government intended to do about it. Last week they found...
...organization of "fish & game" clubs, has long been proud of its unique status as a non-commercial news agency, sharing dispatches among its member newspapers. But World War II, with its intensive news coverage, has been a heavy drain on A. P. coffers, has forced its directors to dig down deep in their reserves to cover expenses...
...Belgium the bread ration had been cut to eight ounces daily, meat to two ounces (including bone) a day. There was no butter, no lard, no coffee, little sugar. In France even Marshal Pétain had to dig out his out his ration card for the waiters, to have the coupons clipped for the grams he consumed-and an average meal meant less than four ounces of bread, three ounces of meat, half an ounce of fats-butter, lard or oil. Spain, ravaged long before the war, faced famine as the winter deepened. Typhus appeared in Warsaw. In unoccupied...