Word: ditch
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...football I've witnessed, I've never seen fellows fight to the last ditch against such great odds as my boys...
...needed in cash to escape bankruptcy. Any balance in the pool thereafter might be distributed equitably among the other roads. In effect, under the I. C. C. plan, strong lines were to use the rate increase to earn a surplus with which to keep weak lines out of the ditch, to maintain the financial stability of U. S. transportation as a whole...
...might join with the G. O. P. for organization purposes but his vote would no longer be the balance of power. Democratic chances were also enhanced by mutterings from Wisconsin where eight "Progressive" Republicans, under the leadership of cross-eyed, frock-coated little John Mandt Nelson, announced they would ditch their party on the organization vote unless G. O. P. leaders promised to relax the "gag rule" of debate and allow floor votes on pet insurgent measures. Even long-legged, grinning John Quillin Tilson, last year's Republican floor leader and now a -candidate for the G. O. P. Speakership...
...food dear; the poor got poorer steadily. Susan's parents read the Bible but had never heard of birth control: their steadily increasing family were just so many Acts of God. Susan's mother died in childbed, her father came to a bad end in a wayside ditch. Susan and the rest of them went on the parish, but she and her sister Tamar soon got jobs on a good farm, had three square meals a day for the first time in their lives...
...tale has been told. Early in 1930 when John Pope, brilliant young member of the Stock Exchange, made an exhaustive study of Simmons Co. and found its immediate prospects none too good, and when heavy sales poured into the stock, President Simmons decided to support it to the last ditch. After all his millions failed to hold it he gave up. Son "Zammie" then approached him (according to the tale) and said some thing to this effect: "Dad, I knew you were wrong in trying to hold the stock up. I hope you won't be sore when...