Word: digged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Attlee's Colonial Secretary, ex-Miner Jim Griffiths, gave the executive a comradely pep talk, said the government wouldn't let the miners down. At meeting's end, Attlee promised to redress the miners' grievances in return for their pledge that they would try to dig 3,000,000 extra tons of coal by April...
...Hollywood screenwriter in making melodrama out of it. Cate winds up marrying a prissy neighbor boy whom she despises; jilted Lover Christie goes to his death in a blazing barn. Meanwhile, two crazy inmates (the witch diggers), convinced that "the truth" is buried somewhere in the earth, dig tirelessly away on the poor-farm grounds...
...some top professional journalists. As editor he hired able, literate Felix Morley;* as managing editor he got flashy, temperamental Alexander F. ("Casey") Jones from the Minneapolis Journal. Morley, who came to the Post from the Brookings Institution, took editorial writers out of their ivory tower, sent them out to dig up their own facts, soon made the Post's editorial page the best-written and best-read in Washington. The Post supported Roosevelt in most of his foreign policies, but at home, fought vigorously against such New Deal aberrations as Roosevelt's attempt to pack the Supreme Court...
...seen Anna Rosenberg at meetings of the Communist-front John Reed Club in New York in 1935 and 1936, stuck to his story even when he was led in to confront Mrs. Rosenberg and she denied his charge in every detail. From then on, the committee began to dig up a veritable sea gull's nest of rotting political fish heads...
...smokehouse, and holes would be dug and everything thrown in pell mell. Then we would begin to imagine that because we knew where those things were, the first Yankee that appeared would know, too, and often we would go and take them all up from there and dig another hole and put them in that; so that our yards began to look like graveyards. It is very funny to think of now, but it wasn't funny then...