Word: diggings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shankaikwan, which breached the Great Wall, he says: "It was only a skirmish." General Tu expects to reach Mukden (190 miles from Suichung) within two weeks. By week's end, his troops lunged 60 miles forward to Chinhsien, a key rail junction, where the Communists had tried to dig in. General Tu is almost certainly overconfident; he expects to have all Manchuria under control by Christmas...
...York, a civil engineer constructed a model of the Empire State building to show that the only hope for the city's skyscrapers was to dig a hole under each and, during an atomic raid, lower them into the earth by elevator...
Rather his job is to dig out the vital background material and usually-overlooked detail that will give TIME'S news depth and feeling-to help our editors make their reports alive and understandable to TIME'S readers...
...over 300 years, Maine's professional clammers have assumed that the only way to dig for clams was with a short rake and a strong back. Last week, they heard differently...
...overall program of Civilian Public Service camps and special service units. Over 4,000 men from C.P.S. are engaged in other special projects, the most effective of which is work with inmates of public mental hospitals. C.O.s not in special service are assigned to regular C.P.S. camps, where they dig ponds, build roads and trails...