Word: digged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fire and Movement. Patton's tankmen were carrying out his prime rule of battle: fire and movement. If they were stopped they did not dig in. They moved around the obstacle and kept firing. Back of them Patton's armored infantry units were sweeping up cities such as Frankfurt am Main and Wiesbaden, gathering a rich bag of prisoners-one day more than 8,000, another probably 10,000. That pleased Patton: he is proud that his Third Army has captured more Germans than any other U.S. outfit in this drive. Casualty reports were coming, and they were...
...Senate's Agriculture Committee this week began to dig to the bottom of the food muddle (see INTERNATIONAL). It had a big job on its hands. In all of vast bureaucratic Washington, everyone could put a finger on someone to blame. All this seemed to boil down to one main fact: there was no top control of the U.S. food supply or its allocation...
Lieut. General George S. Patton insists on spit & polish. Soldier-Cartoonist Bill Mauldin pictures G.I.s as grimy and unshaven. Patton recently threatened to ban Stars & Stripes from his Army area unless Mauldin's well-plugged uglies tidied themselves up. Mauldin came back with a cartoon dig at the general. Navy Captain Harry Butcher, General Eisenhower's top aide, told the two to get together...
...look, you're a newshawk an ya like to write the stuff. Or maybe ya even like to dig up the stuff. Ya won't make a monkey out of yaself, but you'll probably see yourself in places ya never expected to be. Your relations with the Assistant Deans, unless your case is pending action by the Administrative Board, will be anything but official; who knows, ya may even get to see a full Dean some day. Your life as a reporter will be a happy one; ya probe, ya investigate, even expose. As a newsman ya write almost...
...some of the pillboxes the advancing soldiers found unarmed German families, refugees from the bomb-torn cities, cooking their meals. In others tough, battlewise German soldiers fought to the end. Troops of the gth Division had to storm the moats of a picturesque 14th-Century castle to dig out one stubborn Nazi formation...