Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jurist cannot speak out on controversial subjects, "on or off the record," noted Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge, who may have been taking a little dig at some of his more gabby brethren of the court. "All [a justice] can do is talk in platitudes and generalities about things that don't matter ... So why should people spend their time listening...
...were worried. Irate farm-bloc Congressmen called in Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan to ask a Congressman's perennial question: Who's to blame? Brannan could do no better than trot out a familiar Administration devil: the speculator. He ordered the Chicago Board of Trade to dig up the names and employment of all buyers & sellers on the fateful Tuesday. Speculators must have been to blame, said Brannan, because he could not see any other reason for such a drastic shakeout...
...Dogs dig up bones, and women dig up dates, but usually the only thing a man has to dig up is his wallet...
With Radcliffe girls, however, Thomas Cabot, a Dartmouth junior, discovered that he had to dig up a pair of Christmas-gift argyles from the front lawn of the 20 Walker st. dormitory. The Radcliffe donor, piqued by recent neglect, had buried the knitwear...
...Communists is faulty. In Graham's case, such "evidence" was so obviously misleading that the AEC eventually ignored it as inconclusive. With less well-known people, on the Navy Yard draftsman or Oak Ridge chemist level, it is still damning. It would undoubtedly require a lot more work to dig down well past a man's clubs and organizations and friends and find out if he is a Communist or not. But this work is essential. Otherwise we are going to lose a lot of very good men like Frank Graham; some will be turned dow, some will refuse...