Word: digged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Told how the Arabs are bribed to go along the pipeline, dig a hole, build a fire and when the pipe gets hot, shoot a hole. The geyser of oil catches fire. The British-French-American oil people have airport and hospital stockades every 60 miles - send out repair men by airplane and fix the fire hole within two or three hours. Bill cruised every foot of Iraq with a Kurdish interpreter and 16 Arabs-got interested in Biblical lore, measured the marks left by Noah's flood, reconstructed the story of the ark. Says Noah was a pitch...
...Party were in little better case than their unfortunate countrymen. As German officials moved in, Nazi Commissioner Josef Terboven issued a decree divorcing the Samling and the State, provided that in the future the Party should pay its own way, even declared that Quisling's Storm Troopers should dig down for their own railway fares. The Nazis also demanded that the Samling pay back 500,000 kroner ($115,000) taken from the State treasury for Party...
...fire, knives, legalistic arguments were of no avail in the face of a bigger issue. Ex-Senator Matt Neely was a friend of the Administration, and last week the Administration could still dig up enough political debtors, scrape together enough votes to run the Senate. The president of Fairmont State Teachers College got his job by just two votes...
With Correspondent Brewer as he arrived in Budapest was CBS Radio Correspondent Cecil Brown-thrice arrested on suspicion of spying-who told of the "odor of death which hangs over the half-destroyed capital" as he watched German soldiers dig out a few of the 7,000 dead, the 10,000 wounded. Stranded in Zagreb was A.P. Correspondent Max Harrelson, his passport seized by the new puppet Croat Government...
...over sand dunes, but we are on the way home. Arrive in camp in the evening singing: "We'll hang out our washing on the El Wakline." There's a brandy issue. Glorious mail, my stretcher has arrived and another parcel. Two gallons of water per man. Dig a hole, put my ground sheet in-makes a perfect bath and lie flat on my back in the water reading my post-of such is the Kingdom of Heaven...