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...Shallow Ditch. The tour was also grisly for the Germans, as they measured distances and angles of vision to determine whether defendants could have been heard and identified as claimed by their accusers. One grey-faced lawyer fled an inspection of the dungeons of Cell Block 11, crying "I can't stand it any longer!" Another lawyer became ill after visiting one of the gas chambers. All stood mutely at the edge of a shallow ditch where the Nazi SS troops had burned corpses on pyres when the crematoria were filled. Traces of ash and bone could still...
...slick. From ports in the grille it protrudes a pair of machine guns. What's more, the rear axle of the chariot is armed with bladed hub caps that telescopically extend to chew up the rubber of an overtaking vehicle. And if the driver should decide to ditch an obstreperous passenger, he need only press a button: the roof glides back and the jump seat violently ejects the jerk...
Nichols favored neither the position of the supporters of Medicare nor that of the American Medical Association. He described the AMA's vehement opposition to any compromise plan as "somewhat exaggerated." "Last-ditch conservatism never gets you anywhere," he said...
...collapse started when Brown rallied for one last-ditch effort to win the game, with two minutes left and Harvard clinging to its three-point lead...
Breedlove soon boosted the mark to 526 m.p.h.-and nearly killed himself when Spirit clipped through a telephone pole, soared 35 ft. over a dike, and dived into a 20-ft.-deep drainage ditch...