Word: digged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general, the Journal frowns on sensationalism. Says President and Editor J. Donald Ferguson: "Circulation will balloon up just as well when it rains and people buy papers to put on their heads as when you dig up a good scandal, and the boost will last just about as long...
...well for two reasons. It had been made where the North Koreans had not suspected we would hit in force. And the superb sea-air-land teamwork, far smoother than any I had seen in World War II Pacific campaigns, had never given the enemy a chance either to dig in his troops adequately or to bring up reinforcements...
Other species are not so easy to please. Some demand deep privacy, or trees to climb, or earth to dig in, before they feel "at home." Some have peculiar demands. For instance, the slow loris (a primitive primate) marks out its territory, as many animals do, by the scent of its urine. So every time its cage is cleaned, the loris feels dispossessed. It "has to drink incredible quantities of water straight away," says Dr. Hediger, "and sprinkle the nice clean floor systematically just like a watering cart...
...dead man carried a $10,000 life insurance policy (double indemnity for accidents), he hopefully begins identifying a random lot of corpses as Uncle Joe. Twice balked by insurance investigators, once in the midst of a mock-solemn funeral service full of twittering canaries, Wayne finally decides to dig up Uncle Joe and put him where he can do some good...
...Davis and Jimmy Wright had been told where to dig their foxhole, and where and when to fire their weapons. Their task was to protect a supply road between Masan and Chindong. Their captain had placed them on a rocky crag 1,000 feet above the road, on the road's right flank. They stayed there a long time...