Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret weapon: recordings of telephone conversations during the campaign, in which many state leaders had been put on record as approving Dewey's campaign strategy. "Blackmail," cried his opponents. Said Scott, scrambling metaphors right & left: "Age must have its fling. The cliffhangers are making a last-ditch fight . . . My view is that the party has a choice of going back to Garfield or forward to victory." At 48, Hugh Scott was the youngest of the Republican committee brasshats and one of the few with a World War II record...
Bodies in a Ditch. For Abraham Greenberg, a wiry, 24-year-old Polish Jew with prominent cheek bones, it had begun when he was 15 and lived in Warsaw with his mother, two sisters, a brother, his cobbler father. When the Germans came, Abraham fled to Russia. The Germans caught up with him again at Stalino, where he had found a job pushing coal cars in the mines. With 500 others, Abraham was marched away to a field outside town, ordered to stand in front of an anti-tank ditch and stripped of his clothes. He fainted, and fell...
Last spring members of the National Cotton Council and other cotton men raised $380,000 for a last-ditch fight. Feed and flour bags had been used for years by farmers' wives for aprons, dresses, etc., but the cotton men decided to go after city folks too. A tougher and much more important job was to sell cotton bags to wholesale bakers; they didn't give a hoot about prints...
Rude Interruption. Disregarding the inevitable, the Nationalist government pushed ahead with plans for a last-ditch stand. All ordnance plants in the Shanghai-Nanking area, much light industry and operational headquarters of civil and military airlines were being moved to Taiwan and Canton. The Communications Ministry was shifting personnel and gear to Kiangsi, Hunan and Kwangtung...
...stripping themselves of parachute packs and leaving the canopy of Exum's undamaged ship open, both pilots crammed themselves into the cockpit with Exum at the controls seated on the other's lap. With full power, luck and plenty of flaps the plane jumped the ditch, cleared the mountains and rejoined the formation circling overhead...