Word: digged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inconsiderable in the long, silent history of its mountains, except that it commanded the Imphal Road and the Ledo Railway, invasion highways. There the 4th Battalion of the Royal West Kents, Colonel John Laverty commanding, took position on April Fool's Day, 1944. They had four days to dig in. There were 500 of them, and for the next 16 days they held off the 31st Japanese Division, totaling some...
...Whenever Black spoke." said Nasser. "I went back in my memory to the year 1854, when Ferdinand de Lesseps arrived in Egypt and told the Khedive: 'We want to dig the Suez Canal. The Suez Canal will bring you untold benefit.' " Egypt put up $40 million to help build the canal, supplied forced labor to dig it, and "120,000 workers died digging the canal . . . Britain forcibly took away from us our 44% of the company's shares . . . Instead of the canal being dug for Egypt, Egypt became the property of the canal...
...froze an estimated $1 billion of Egyptian assets (including the Canal Company's) in Great Britain. Defense secretaries took stock of aircraft carriers, destroyers and airborne troops available if needed. Alternate ways to avoid patronizing the Suez Canal were canvassed. The French talked of an old plan to dig a canal from Haifa to the Gulf of Aqaba, running through Israel. The big problem was Middle East oil, which supplies 70% of the European market, and accounts for half of the Suez Canal traffic. Perhaps the desert pipeline to the Mediterranean might be expanded. And new supertankers might make...
...tape delayed further digging for years. But at last the persistent Grimes got permission to dig in another nearby bomb site, selected a spot where he thought the systematic Romans would have built their usual turrets. Well below the modern surface, he found what he was looking for: two stone blockhouses about 25 ft. square. Between them ran a road divided by stone markers into two 8-ft. chariot-ways. The road had been surfaced three times. Grimes estimated that the forts and road were built in A.D. 70-90, about the time of the Emperor Vespasian...
...would seem James Shepley's article has given Russia more information on the comparative strengths of the world's two great air forces than their paid spies have been able to dig up for the last six months. Is it not possible that this was the purpose of the Russian invitation given so congenially to Twining? Twining, plus the American press, has given the Russians all the answers again. They know that garrulous verbosity is one of America's serious weaknesses...