Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would sound no stranger than did a two-column ad in the Wall Street Journal, fortnight ago. "WANTED FAST! . . . One man with $15,000 cash money or two men with $7,500 cash money each. . . . AND FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE PLEASE HURRY. I am just getting ready to dig a 4,300-foot well in Ector County, West Texas . . . and ... I don't believe there is even any doubt but that we will have anywhere from 50 feet to 100 feet of oil saturation and make anywhere from a 100 bbl. to a 1,200 bbl. well that...
...Habsburg custom is that the King-Emperor does not sully himself with money (convenient since Otto's family never had much); so someone had to accompany him wherever he went, and dig down into unregal jeans whenever the Emperor wanted some cigarets. Under the Schuschnigg regime, Austria restored a few estates to the family, but the Nazis took them away again and gave them to war veterans...
...Harvard Refugee Committee, which raised $19,000 in a whirlwind campaign late in 1938, is now faced with the possibility of having to dig up an additional $5,000 if it is to carry the 14 refugee students under its charge through to the completion of their education...
...believe that there is a place somewhere in provincial America for a newspaper that will have the intelligence and influence of the Manchester Guardian of the old days. We have no fancy notions about being a national newspaper, but we intend to dig under the spot news of what is going...
Even the mildest criticism of Nazi policies is usually balanced by a dig at the Allies, to safeguard Swedish neutrality...