Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early 1945, Major Wyatt ("Rat-top") Exum, then deputy commander of the 325th Fighter Group based at Lesina Airdrome in Italy, while returning from a fighter sweep over German-infested, mountainous Hungary, brashly landed his P-31D, wheels down, on a handkerchief of flat land bisected by a deep ditch, to rescue an uninjured squadron mate who had crash-landed his ship with an overheated engine...
...make a new start? It is just possible, Connolly thinks-provided Mr. Shelleyblake is prepared to ditch all his responsibilities to his wife, his children, politics, Mr. Vampire-in fact, to everything except his best work...
...dusk, stood raptly as rush-hour traffic blatted past on Pennsylvania Avenue. It multiplied as President Harry Truman walked across the street from the White House with three Secret Service men and hurried inside. Madame Chiang Kai-shek was about to come to tea-and to make a last-ditch plea for aid to China...
...Gimo picked up his military phone and got his Suchow commanders on the wire. His orders: leave the city at once, burn what supplies could not be taken along, seek out the Communist armies to the south and engage them. These were new, last-ditch tactics. It was kill or be killed. Nothing less would save Nanking and Nationalist China from imminent fall...
...boys* had started out by stealing a .30-30 rifle from an unlocked car. Then they broke into a truck, stole cigarettes. Thus equipped, they headed out of town, hid in a ditch, and waited. Soon a car came along. One of the boys, masked with a handkerchief, sprang up, fired a warning shot. The car did not halt. There was another shot, a scream from the car, a slithering to a stop. Farmer James Millar Watson, 62, had been mortally wounded. A week later, when one of the boys confessed, police took them to jail...