Word: ditched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...photoreconnaissance. The air was clear and still, visibility unlimited. Looking out, the pilot could see the length & breadth of Sicily and, on the other side, the full expanse of the Italian toe. Between the two, the narrow straits looked "so small you could jump across them-a blue ditch...
...they were, the leaders used their dwindling force effectively, forcing the Allies to fight for every town. The German soldiers, too, although they must have realized for days that Sicily was lost-and apparently were beginning to realize that the war might be lost-put up a bitter last-ditch fight in every machine-gun nest...
...group of dive-bombers swung in from the left and circled back in our direction, and suddenly swooped straight for us in steep whining dives. A crash shook the earth directly in front of us, and smoke and the smell of burning was in the air. The ditch we dug our faces into was only one foot deep...
...between two hills we came into full view of the enemy, who could now strike us with enfilading fire. Some soldiers drove into a narrow ditch to ascend the slope, but the Colonel strode straight up the hill. As we climbed everyone grew faint, turning pale and looking at each other in the naked frankness of misery...
Powerful cranes swung the two-ton pipe around, dropped it gently into a four-foot, slippery, clay ditch. Two welders banged their helmets down over their faces, descended into the ditch, self-conscious at doing their daily routine before 800 people. Their electric torches flared briefly, shooting a sizzling glare in the bright sunlight. The vital work done, short, rotund Interior Secretary Harold Le Clair Ickes stepped gingerly down into the pit, posed for the photographers. Big Inch was through...