Word: digged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front-line troops who lose the blood and sweat and life, who dig the foxholes, who sleep on the ground every single night of our overseas lives. . . . Our job is a dirty and uncomfortable one, and we do it without too much complaining...
Whatever made Hollywood dig into its back picture files to rejuvenate "Phantom of the Opera" deserves all moviegoers" hearty approval. It is one of the best films of the year...
...children and grandchildren† except one, then he and the last child were tortured and slain. One abbot was dragged out of his small monastery by his beard, shot dead. A priest at Herakleion Cathedral, accused of aiding the guerrillas, was stripped naked in the sanctuary, forced to dig his own grave, then shot. Most of these priests, said the Bishop, died murmuring prayers or singing the Greek National Anthem...
...identified them all now," she said with the proper degree of sadness. "It wasn't a pleasant job, though. We had to dig one chap's dog tag out of his throat, and another had his wallet driven into his abdomen...
...North West Fur Co. to steal a march on the Hudson's Bay Co. This gave its bearded, fur-hatted voyageurs a quicker route for their flat-bottomed bateaux. During the war of 1812, Americans wrecked this canal. Later, when the Michigan legislature asked Congress to dig a new canal, Congress refused, relying on the judgment of Orator Henry Clay, who cried: "It is a work quite beyond the remotest settlement of the United States-if not the moon...