Word: digged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government is trying to make a mystery out of money to confuse the people. They have things in such a mess now that only a wizard can solve it. They must be crazy. Prospectors dig gold out of the ground, sell it to the Treasury, and they turn around and bury it in another hole in Kentucky and hire soldiers to guard it. ... A man should be able to take his ore down to the mint, get the Government to strike off the coins for him and keep the metal that rightfully belongs to him. There would be little...
...Angeles' big First Methodist Church, whose "Sentence Sermons" are syndicated in more than 100 newspapers. No pussyfooting puller of punches, Editor Smith's first issue addressed Methodist youth under the heading "Toasting Marshmallows While the World Burns." It suggested that "many church services are being defeated by dig-nity," denounced church boards that are more temporal than spiritual, asked whether Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka had forgotten his debt to Methodism, publicized a slump of $481,000 in Methodist world-service benevolences in the united church's first six months...
...escapist entertainment, the cinema can think of no more useful place to train its cameras than on the moody background of the East Indies. And no writer of English fiction used that background with more skill than Polish-born Novelist Joseph Conrad. Sooner or later, Hollywood was sure to dig further into his work for a scenario...
...himself supported him. And one of Hitler's first acts as Chancellor was to declare: "In the two Christian creeds lie the most important factors for the preservation of the German people." Only in secret did he tell his confidant Hermann Rauschning: "The parsons will be made to dig their own graves. They will betray their God to us. They will betray anything for the sake of their miserable little jobs and incomes. ... I can guarantee that they will replace the cross with our swastika...
Little John & the Parrot. Up from Athens last week to assay the situation and decide whether his troops should dig in for the winter pretty soon or try to strike on through, drive the Italians into the Mediterranean before they could poise a counterblow, went the long-nosed, aristocratic Commander in Chief who taught and led the Greek Army: General Alex ander Papagos (paa-paa-gos). Every morning, for two hours at Army Head quarters in Athens, he had conferred intently with Premier General "Little John" Metaxas. His enemies derided General Papagos as "Little John's" Papagei (parrot), overlooking...