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Word: digged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Wray gave "dig in" orders shortly before dusk. His men scraped through wet sand and mud to frozen hardpan in which they hacked out foxholes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: The Fight for the Cemetery | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...Principles of individual liberty are good, but they are intended for the well-being of society-not to destroy it ... Let's not allow good principles to be exploited by wicked people ... If I dig a well, it's to get water to drink, not to fall into and be drowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Young Gentlemen | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...Dig deeply enough into the question of football amateurism and it turns out to be mainly a problem of admissions. If no college offered the proverbial convertibles or made special academic concessions to athletes, there would be no football problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Football | 2/24/1951 | See Source »

...trial, Bogart's chief witness plunges out the window to his death. The assistant D. A. pores over the record of the case to dig out a clue to another witness. The camera goes back with him, introducing one hoodlum after another. As each tells his own story, the movie backtracks again to picture it. Bogart finds his clue just in time for a wham-bam finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 12, 1951 | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...subcommittee hoped, this same member stated, to get 100,000 men now classified 4-F, 200,000 men with one dependent (a wife), and 200,000 students, before having to dig into the lower age area. There are, he said, over 500,000 men in college right now, but many of these are veterans or have dependents or essential posts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defense Spokesmen to Go Before Senate Committee | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

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