Word: digs
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...himself supported him. And one of Hitler's first acts as Chancellor was to declare: "In the two Christian creeds lie the most important factors for the preservation of the German people." Only in secret did he tell his confidant Hermann Rauschning: "The parsons will be made to dig their own graves. They will betray their God to us. They will betray anything for the sake of their miserable little jobs and incomes. ... I can guarantee that they will replace the cross with our swastika...
Little John & the Parrot. Up from Athens last week to assay the situation and decide whether his troops should dig in for the winter pretty soon or try to strike on through, drive the Italians into the Mediterranean before they could poise a counterblow, went the long-nosed, aristocratic Commander in Chief who taught and led the Greek Army: General Alex ander Papagos (paa-paa-gos). Every morning, for two hours at Army Head quarters in Athens, he had conferred intently with Premier General "Little John" Metaxas. His enemies derided General Papagos as "Little John's" Papagei (parrot), overlooking...
...minute second-guesser, the Infantry's chief sat down one day in mid-1939, pondered French and German infantry texts, began to pencil a revision of the U. S. foot soldiers' bible. Editor Lynch concurred with German theories of fluid movement, frowned on French notions of static, dig-in defense. Last June, dispatches from Paris indicated that he had been dead right...
Financed by John D. Rockefeller Jr., who put up a total of $1,200,000, the big dig in Athens laid bare the site of the Agora (ancient market place) lying at the foot of the Acropolis and the Areopagus. To get at this, the diggers had to tear down 365 houses in modern Athens. Some 250,000 tons of earth were removed from 25 acres. In Philadelphia last week, Dr. Shear gave the American Philosophical Society a summary of the finds...
...degrees and to a section of Rotterdam in one short blast, the Germans now did to Coventry. In the morning, what had been a thriving city was a smoldering pile of rubble where dazed, stunned survivors wandered aimlessly, and rescue parties from other cities scrabbled in the ruins to dig out hundreds buried dead and alive...