Word: ditched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston, Beacon Hill matrons sat themselves down on their historic redbrick sidewalks, in a last-ditch fight to prevent city workers from ripping them up, replacing them with concrete...
Deep in the jungle on the southern fringe of Motilon territory, Holder did find one Indian who lived with an old woman, presumably his mother. His house was of hardwood poles with attic loopholes for last-ditch defense. Around it were three concentric palisades. Holder crawled through small holes in the defenses and interviewed the Indian, who was friendly enough not to shoot...
...Steppes), first printed in Germany in 1927 and in the U.S. in 1929, has long been out of print, and is now brought out again to cash in on the Nobel publicity. It is a repellent example of that beery old thing, German Romanticism, being sick in the last ditch before Naziism...
...away from the travel-guide idea. We wanted an adult magazine that would tell people more about the world so they could act intelligently when and if they set out to see it. We wanted a book that would inform them in a big, broad way." They had to ditch most of the excursion articles their predecessors had laid away, and convince authors that they didn't have to puff the places they wrote about...
While the Crockers planned a last ditch appeal, Committee Chairman William A. Douglas explained defensively: "We have no objections to the Crockers personally, other than that they are not white...