Word: digged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...widely distributed series of cartoons in the Nashville Banner derided "Mixiecrats" and "Bleeding Hearts," pictured the North's "objective liberal press" as burying delinquency stories on the obituary pages. When newsmen such as the Atlanta Journal's Managing Editor William Ray tried conscientiously to dig deeper by demanding a racial breakdown of the 644 students expelled from New York schools as troublemakers, they ran afoul of school regulations that forbid such identification...
...Dig the Canal. "More and more," T.R. adjured Congress in 1902, "the increasing interdependence and complexity of international relations render it incumbent on all civilized and orderly powers to insist on the proper policing of the world." T.R. began to keep the peace with a big stick. With a threat of intervention by the Fleet, he effectively warned rampaging German Kaiser Wilhelm II away from Venezuela. He landed U.S. forces in Santo Domingo to forestall European atempts to "collect debts," put U.S. agents backed up by marines to work at the customs houses, collected enough revenue to pay the debts...
...decisions of his life. He sent the U.S.S. Nashville into the port of Colon in Panama to give implicit support to a Panamanian rebellion against Panama's colonial overlord, Colombia. His eventual intention, of course, was to seize or to negotiate possession of a canal zone in Panama, dig the canal, and that way safeguard the defenses of both coasts of the U.S. Said T.R.: "It was imperative ... of vital necessity...
...learns what a human life is worth on the trail. As the man lies dying, the other hands sit around and beat their gums about this and that, as if nothing at all unusual were going on. "I think he's dead," one of them says at last. "Dig it deep," Boss Ford replies, "so's the kyoats doan git 'im." And at the graveside he says unemotionally, "He was a good man with cattle. Allus did the best he knew how." And they throw on the dirt...
Jazzmen scorn most classically trained sax players, but frequently dig Mule. Says the Dave Brubeck Quartet's Paul Desmond, a brilliant alto-sax artist: ''He has the quality of purity. He's made the sax sound good, which no other legit sax player has done." In the 19203, onetime Schoolteacher Mule served in the Garde Républicaine. which has France's finest military band. He studied the few orchestral works for saxophone then at hand, including Richard Strauss's Domestic Symphony, Bizet's L'Arlésienne. After a brief flirtation...