Word: digged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Davis' guiding principle is that "a free people has a right to know." He tries to base propaganda on plain truth, whenever he can dig it out in Washington. But the truth is not always palatable, either at home or abroad. The Allies do not enjoy hearing of strikes, Washington bungling, domestic political quarrels-but the Axis does. Yet Davis, reared under a free press, could not and would not suppress such facts. Thus one of his big problems is to explain the U.S. satisfactorily to the world...
...destined to be a long, intimate acquaintanceship, for your scheduled date of departure is less., than six weeks hence. Nevertheless, we look forward to a congenial and cooperative session with you and hope to see you dig in comfortably and relax this Sunday in preparation for your concentrated tour of duty at the Business School...
...sure points don't help the mermen any, and they will just have to dig in and try to limit the rest of their opponents' points to a very low figure...
...been beaten in most of the great night battles is probably due to superior U.S. detection equipment and gunnery. Almost invariably the Japanese launch their land attacks at night. They hold their fire when the enemy is not firing, so as not to give away their positions. They dig deep, stand-up foxholes, which are safe except under direct artillery fire (and which are better than U.S. slit trenches). On the defensive, they dig themselves dugouts protected by palm trunks, and then they crawl in and resist until some explosive or a human terrier kills them. Parachutist Major Harry Torgeson...
Before the Red Army had a chance to dig in, Leeb sent 300,000 men against the city's outer defenses. They were repelled by Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov, whose forces included thousands of women and factory workers. During the next year the Germans hammered the city with 52 infantry, four motorized and four tank divisions, some 6,000 heavy guns, not counting thousands of machine guns, mortars and planes. Shells were lobbed into the city almost daily; hardly a day or night was free of air raids. Destroyed early in the siege were warehouses packed with a three-year...