Word: ditch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quits. Heartened by a recent Harris poll showing that public support for passage has increased since January from 50% to 63% and a huge outpouring of money (more than $ 1 million a month in contributions to the National Organization for Women since December), ERA activists have intensified their last-ditch push for ratification. Says NOW President Eleanor Smeal: "Women want to be equal and they refuse to believe that their country would vote that they...
...campus, a Business School recruiter. Thomas J. Mallon, has this spring held introductory meetings at the Sheraton Commander hotel. Unapproved posters announced the meetings, listing the time and place. Halperin attended one of these meetings and says when he left early Mallon followed him out to make a "last ditch effort" to recruit him Mallon was told both this year and last by officials at both the College and the B school that he could not use his room or business phone to recruit or post unapproved posters. Jesse M. Fried '85, who is joining the program, says Mallon called...
Meanwhile, the Huskies O'Route kept the Harvard bats silent until only two outs away from victory. In a last-ditch effort the Crimson managed to load the bases in the bottom of the seventh, but Northeastern reliever Dave Seropiant induced Allard to ground out to second to end the game. First Game ab r h bt Sullivan,cf 3 2 1 0 O'Malley c 4 2 2 1 O'Leary dh 3 1 1 0 Carr,dh 4 0 3 3 Carey,3b 3 0 2 0 Bates,if 3 0 1 0 Gulney...
...plate, while the rest are sliding by, ever so slowly, on the Pacific plate; if they maintained present course and speed, they would arrive in San Francisco in a few millenniums. The gray, wooden posts serving as door jambs have moved 12 in. to the right. Outside, a drainage ditch zagged 18 in. Fire-fighting water lines that cross the fault have flexible joints to allow for earth movement...
...blow was struck by Thomas Eagleton of Missouri, a fellow Democrat and longtime Williams friend. Said he: "Senator Williams has not had the good grace to withdraw from this body. We should not perpetuate our own disgrace by asking him to stay." California Democrat Alan Cranston offered a last-ditch substitute resolution merely to censure Williams on the grounds that the FBI had improperly entrapped him, but the motion garnered little support and was never brought to a vote...