Word: ditch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Work in the Square has created similar unpleasant memories. Some students have approached the ruins with intellectual curiosty, such as Ryan C. Reetz '84, wo crawled into the Mass. Ave. ditch one night freshman year to look around...
...meeting of the eight-member executive board of the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.) at Lausanne's ornate Palace Hotel last week was billed as a last-ditch attempt to persuade the Soviet Union to reconsider its boycott of this summer's Olympic Games in Los Angeles. But the effort was over before it began. Conferring privately the evening before the meeting, Los Angeles Olympic Organizer Peter Ueberroth and Soviet Sports Chief Marat Gramov found themselves in accord on one point and not much else. Said Ueberroth: "It would be misleading to suggest that we came even an inch...
...ability of our diplomats to negotiate, encouraged more intransigence from the Syrians, and prolonged the violence." It is not necessary to evaluate thoroughly American policy objectives in the Middle East to see that the Administration's program was handicapped by far more than public outcry. The President's last-ditch attempt to find a scapegoat for his fiasco betrays an awareness of the magnitude of his blunder...
...injured last week in the Carolinas, and perhaps 3,000 more were left homeless. "It looked like the hand of God reaching down to crush us," said Joyce Leonard of the funnel that ripped through Mount Olive, N.C. She and her two children survived by taking cover in a ditch. Said North Carolina Governor James B. Hunt: "We have never seen a disaster like this before, and we pray to God we never see one again...
Stewardesses are never very soothing anyway. Who are they trying to kid with that little spiel on takeoff about safety exits and all that crap? "In the unlikely event that we have to ditch the aircraft over water, your seat cushion will act as a floatation device." First off, if it's so damn unlikely that we're going to crash, why bother telling us about it? And a floatation device? Great, you're crashing into the water at 600 miles per hour--all you need is a surfboard...