Word: digged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale statistical staff found incentive to nip on theirs, however, after Jeff Coolidge and Alan Culbert nailed the Bulldog's coffin with timely pass interceptions. Townie Boy Scouts, who did messenger work in the press box, were surprised to dig those crazy canteens...
...does not and never will have the student body or the faculty capable of handling such a plan. Not more than one per cent of any freshman or sophomore class would be truly worthy of benefiting from the idealistic and flexibility of Plan B. Students would be unable to 'dig in' and know where to start. Straight from the strict discipline of secondary school the average freshman would be lost in a world without marks or attendance rules. A year might go by before his first 'progress examination' told him he was in real trouble. The faculty on the other...
...report stresses the inhuman program of horror which they underwent, and points up the extreme heroism of those who did not sign, rather than attaching any special blame to the men who broke under the strain. After days of beatings and starvation, the Communists would make a victim dig his own grave, then they put a pistol to his head, and gave him a final chance to sign a confession. It is not difficult to understand how a man could convince himself that it was all right to sign...
...Communists assume is already acting like an animal is offered in sharp terms a purely animal stimulus: food or death. The obvious animal response is expected. Yet in one case, a man was sentenced to death twelve times and he refused to yield. Another man was made to dig his own grave, was taken before a firing squad, heard the command to fire and heard the pistols click on empty chambers; and he refused to yield. Such testimony as this seems to teach us that the spirit of man can run deeper than the reflexes of Pavlov...
...beat, Rosenthal and other reporters have often seen delegates gladly appear on a TV interview program after ducking newspaper reporters for weeks. "What do you expect?" asks one newspaperman. "[The delegate] knows that we'll check up on him, go after other sources, dig around a little, maybe develop a story. But look at that [TV] program: no embarrassing questions; a chance to tell the world why he is heaven's gift to diplomacy; a big audience; painless. He's smart. What does he want to talk to newspapermen...