Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could walk down the middle of the road, being pleasant to all he met on the way. But how wide is the middle of the road, in an election year? Not wide enough, apparently, for all the factions of the Democratic Party, which seemed to be heading toward the ditch...
...Ditch or no ditch, Harry Truman intended to keep going down the presidential road...
...than most of her neighbors. This week it seemed to be the Czechs' turn. Communist Premier Klement Gottwald was getting set to turn the country into a one-party state. In Prague, Czechoslovakia's ailing, tenacious little President Eduard Benes backed into what might be the last-ditch fight of his life...
...Florida airfields heard a terse, frightening radio report from a Miami-bound Eastern Airlines Constellation with 69 people aboard. One of its engines had exploded, a piece of flying metal had killed a steward, and preparations were being made to ditch it, if necessary, 130 miles out at sea. Coast Guard planes began a frantic search. After two hoars of tomblike silence, the missing plane, its radio and one engine dead, landed on an abandoned naval airstrip at Bunnell, Fla., blew two tires and came to a safe stop...
...Kepp's Junior Varsity basketball forces starved off a last-ditch rally by the Newman Prep quintet last night on the Indoor Athletic Building floor to come off with a 46-44 victory, its sixth in eight starts...