Word: ditched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ditch diggers and bank presidents wore bright-colored Aloha shirts to work; women appeared in gay, ankle-length muu-muus,* modern models of the Mother Hubbards which early missionaries had hung on native Hawaiian girls. A big, bronzed, part-Hawaiian gas company foreman named Charles Kramer acted as Alii, or king of the celebration, attended parades, parties, sports events, suitably attired in scanty trunks, a long yellow cloak and a bright-colored helmet...
...Saint Joan" publicized and played its way into the biggest hit in Harvard history. Its gross $5000 take smothered the simple if effective rival offering, "Waiting for Lefty," into a dusty corner, and the failure of a last-ditch HDC presentation of "Juno and the Paycock" didn't add any blue stars for prestige to that side of the ledger. Fat with its "Joan" power and profits, the Theatre Workshop bounded into 1947-48 like a herd of swollen gazelles...
...Murdered Bride, all the other news of the day was shoved back among the goiter-cure ads. The story was a natural: the victim had worked as a dice girl in a gin mill and she had been married just two days. When she was found dead in a ditch, the hunt for her husband was on. Connelly and Drury found him. While the Herald-American pulled out all the stops (HERO REPORTERS REVEAL HUSBAND'S OWN STORY), they kept him out of sight, gave him up to the police only after they had found out everything they wanted...
...California's Democratic boss was at stake last week as he squared off for a showdown with the party's State Central Committee. Trying to ride the bumpy road between California's right and left-wing forces, he was headed for the ditch (TIME, July 28). So Jimmy made a hard right turn...
When the U.S. went south in 1904 to dig the big ditch it took Jim Crowism into the tropics. Skilled U.S. foremen were paid in gold currency; locally recruited labor, mainly Jamaican Negroes, were paid in silver. Those on the gold roll shopped at "gold" commissaries; those on the silver roll went to others marked "silver." Drinking fountains labeled gold and silver stood side by side. At the post-office were two separate wickets. The system went farther: the few Negroes on the gold roll would never have dreamed of sending their children to the superior gold schools, though theoretically...