Word: ditch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pity we've been born before our time. In a few hundred ears incest will be as common as ditch water and as dull. too. You see, when they first started in breeding cattle, the Holy Marys said it was incest, that it was against God's law. But the farmers won the argument. They said that they were breeding best to the best, a good bull to his sister or even to his mother...
...days after the blast, said it had been immediately clear to his group that the setup was wrong. "There were too many Marines in too small an area. Why didn't they use the parking lot for security? Why didn't they have a tank ditch? Was that a political decision?" Kelley also dismissed a Central Intelligence Agency report that had been sent to him three days before the attack, warning of a possible attempt on the Marines, as one of "those broad, vague, general statements they hide behind...
...statement was clearly designed to lay blame on the U.S. for any failure of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks. It amounted, in the words of one Western diplomat, to a "last-ditch effort" to drive a wedge between NATO governments. On both counts, the Soviet strategy seemed to fall flat. In Washington, President Reagan deftly countered Andropov by challenging the Soviets "to negotiate seriously at Geneva" and vowing that the U.S. "will stay at the negotiating table as long as necessary." NATO defense ministers, meeting last week at the Canadian resort of Château Montebello, near Ottawa...
...last-ditch effort, as Bertrand made his final rounding of the windward mark more than 3 min. ahead, Conner tried to sail over his opponent, get to leeward of Australia II and force it to head back up to windward. He was about a minute too late. By the end of the race, in constantly shifting winds of up to 19 knots from the southwest, Bertrand led by a whopping 3 min. 25 sec. The series was tied 3-3. From London to Perth, the betting was on Australia...
...Date Garden is now tidied up, a splendid Chinese garden. No sounds echo through it, no bugles sound in the morning. It was all abustle in its glory days, but now the water ripples silently through the irrigation ditch and the pears and apple trees in springtime's pink and white blossoms offer their beauty only to occasional visitors...