Word: digged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editorial experts demanded a Manhattan subway as early as 1849. When city officials paid no attention, the magazine hired a crew of workmen and attempted to dig a subway secretly under downtown Broadway, smuggling the excavated dirt out through the nearby cellars of sympathizers. A Tribune reporter nosed out the venture before it was finished...
Colonel General Heinz Guderian had willed Budapest's doom for a reason that was obvious: he wanted to gain time for the defense of Austria. Out of Vienna moved a horde of old and young to dig trenches along the old Austro-Czechoslovak border. The Germans were reportedly moving what they could of Vienna's big war plants...
Britain learned it first, in the black days after Dunkirk: even the old men had to be prepared to fight. Germany was deep into the fifth year before it had to dig so deep...
...room number is Mor err Chase C-36, if there is anything you don't understand, or if you get in too deep... dig, or do something, but please don't come around here as we are still working on the first week's assignments. Ah, but it's a great opportunity that we have... but so was Dewey...
...George Catlin was a great-great-uncle of mine. One particularly delightful anecdote which has come down in the family concerns a feast given to a visitor, a friend of Catlin's. As the assemblage sat on the ground, a squaw passed behind the tenderfoot and whispered hospitably, "Dig deep, white man; puppy in bottom...