Word: dig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Skeleton Inspection. Like a new tenant peering in all the closets, the 83rd Congress can be expected to make a careful inspection of the skeletons left behind by the Truman Administration. Investigating committees will continue to dig at Communism and corruption in Government. Conduct of the Korean war (including the ammunition shortage) and administration of the supersecret Central Intelligence Agency are other likely prospects for probing. More than one committee will be anxious to get a look at the administrative records Harry Truman has kept out of the range of congressional eyes...
...would pay a lot more. He found this out when a man from Boston asked the price of two paintings. As Cowboy-Painter Russell told it later: "He was a plumb stranger ... so I said $50. And I'm a common liar if the fellow didn't dig out $100 and hand 'em over. He thought I meant $50 apiece . . . I didn't say a word. I just bought the fellow a drink and kept the rest. He don't know to this day how bad he beat himself...
...program will dig into "basic technical, economic, and human" links between business and farming. A study of business management of farms themselves will also be undertaken...
Newspaper reports expanded this into a dig at Ivy policy...
Pickett has lost two of his junior stars, one of his sophomores, temporarily, at any rate, and one freshman. Graduation didn't dig into his reserves at all, since only one senior appeared in the line-up last season...