Word: diggings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...status had changed, though few seemed to realize it. The U.S. still thought of itself as the peacemaker-or as the umpire on the high chair at the tennis game. But now the U.S. was down on the court, sweating, lobbing back deep smashes, sprinting to the net to dig up drop shots...
Perry Como's Till the End of Time (a Tin Pan Alley rewrite of Chopin) was the biggest-selling single record of 1945 (more than 1,000,000 discs). Como versions of another Chopin tune, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, and Dig You Later ("A Hubba, Hubba, Hubba") which has sold over a million records, are on the current jukebox best-selling lists. Como sings them straighter than slow-drag Sinatra, but with somewhat less ease than The Groaner, Crosby. Says Como: "I can't explain the different techniques in Crosby, Sinatra and me, unless...
After listening to luncheon speakers argue the right, left and center of the nation's labor-management fight, and pondering such panaceas as compulsory arbitration for strikes affecting the public welfare, 90 members and guests of Manhattan's Women's City Club decided to dig in. They voted 86-to-4 to "just let labor and industry fight it out alone awhile...
...Franco drove home his point. For months he had hesitated to shoot ten Spanish "Communists because France and several Latin American countries had asked the Spanish Government to spare them. Now the ten died before firing squads. London reported that 2,500 Moorish troops were moving into Spain to dig other resisters out of mountain hideaways...
...More Dunkirks. Britain's Labor Government heard the moaning, promptly ordered up Churchillian propaganda guns to drown the noise. Prime Minister Attlee appointed a three-man Cabinet committee to plan the strategy for "the Battle of the Bread." Minister of Agriculture Tom Williams launched a new "Dig for Victory" campaign. Lord Aberconway, president of the Royal Horticultural Society, announced that his members would continue to resist the temptation to reconvert to flowers. Pert Minister of Education Ellen Wilkinson appealed to Britons to carry on in "the Dunkirk spirit...