Word: dig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fighting spirit of peace lovers is in for still more rousing during the coming session. The Senate Munitions Investigation Committee planned to reopen hearings, summon J. P. Morgan & friends, try to prove that the bankers drove the U. S. into the last war, try to dig up enough headline scandals to win committee members headline credit with headline-reading voters...
...ardent, untiring action for peace." This was throwing down the gauntlet with a vengeance-a supreme act of po- litical courage. With an entire world of sympathy for poor little Ethiopia and the poor big League of Nations pullulating around him, Peasant Laval could almost be seen to dig his toes into the earthy al- ternatives of peace & war as he tenaciously clung to the thesis of The ("Dead") Deal: peace by negotiation now and. since Italy is today the stronger, therefore peace now at Ethiopia's ex- pense. Finally Pierre Laval asked for a vote recording the Chamber...
...Yorkers saw her last week as a slender, graceful young woman of 32 who had so thoroughly absorbed the role that there was scarcely a detail left unfinished. She could be fluttery and childlike without seeming foolish. She could be wistful and shy and still suggest a certain brave dig nity. Her Un bel di vedremo was perfectly patterned to describe Butterfly's faith in Lieutenant Pinkerton's return, her defiant refusal to believe that he could have for gotten her. Other Butterflies have sung the aria with greater flourish, built it up to a more flagrant climax...
...Digging of the Gauley Bridge tunnel ended in 1932. By that time about 500 silicosis deaths had spread terror throughout the territory. A smart Kentucky lawyer went over the mountains, instigated damage suits against Rinehart & Dennis. Some relicts won. Some derelicts won. Many lost or sued too late to accomplish anything for themselves. But as a result West Virginia passed its silicosis compensation law, which in turn prompted the radical press to dig up the Gauley Bridge skeleton, rattle its bones...
Most appealing to moderns is the great King Oguola, traditionally fourth king of the Bini. Since his people were rich and peaceable and his slaves had little to do, he sent 20,000 of them into the forest to dig a ditch about 40 feet wide, 20 feet deep. "Not for war," explained King Oguola. "But when I die and people say 'Who was Oguola?' they will hear 'he was the King that dug the Big Ditch...