Word: ditched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State. Officers and commissars testified that in 1937 Poum soldiers on the Huesca front had for some time a "pact of nonaggression'' with the Rightist soldiers facing them, that a Leftist staff officer who "denounced such trafficking with the enemy" was found murdered in a ditch...
...WPAsters wielding picks & shovels on a ditch-digging project in New York City's Bronx, 38 walked off the job one day last week and refused to labor more. Their reason: working with either pick or shovel was hard enough, but to ask any man to use these tools interchangeably (i.e., without a chance to rest while another worker plied the other tool) was "inhuman." Result: one man discharged, one suspended, interchangeable picking & shoveling resumed...
...Japanese announced their military timetable now called for the capture of Hankow by November 3", "The Sacred and Imperial Birthdate." This week, far ahead of schedule, the advance Japanese forces, behind a murderous airplane and artillery bombardment, hammered into Hankow. Chinese military heads, unwilling to stage a bloody last-ditch defense, abandoned the city, leaving squads behind to dynamite anything of value to the Japanese. Terrorized Chinese clamored at the barricades to Hankow's foreign areas as flames roared through the city. Generalissimo Chiang enplaned for a new military headquarters in the interior, Mme. Chiang flew to Chengtu, northwest...
While Copilot Clyde Russell sprayed a fire extinguisher on the burning wing, Pilot Dave Hissong coolly took his time, retracted his wheels, came down belly-flat in a ditch-scarred field. Steward Frank Gibbs shoved each man as far into the open air as he could. They had not stumbled more than 20 yards when flames swept through the cabin...
...ears and her voice replaced his useless eyes, the horse no longer picked his feet high off the ground at every step in fear that a ditch, a tree, a root or a hollow might trip him. Gradually he became more & more excited when he was in groups of other horses, used to lunge and try to race. Once, when Miss Getzendaner gave the first signal at a ditch, he jumped it instead. She decided then to try to train him to jump...