Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practice." But as a U.N. diplomat put it in a corridor aside: "Since the U.S. doesn't want war and Britain and France don't want economic sanctions, the only thing we can do is accept what we all know: it's Nasser's ditch...
...eggs--the embodied hopes of the world's remaining 28 whooping cranes. But Josephine, oh Josephine, beware the avaricious owl and the rapacious rats who murdered your babe last year. Let your keepers continue their 24 hour guard, let them burn the floodlights brightly, and let them keep the ditch around your cage filled with rat poison...
...until Monday that the police came to search the Medical School in the wake of Webster's statement that Parkman had been there on the afternoon of his disappearance. Their search of the school building was a last-ditch effort in the struggle to find out when Parkman was last seen. They had run down nearly all the leads that had been given them, including some tips given in mysterious and crude letters they received in the morning, that "you will find D. Parkman Murdered on brooklynt heights," and that "Dr. Parkman was took on bord the ship herculum...
...settlement resembled a fortified medieval monastery (see map). There was a central building, originally about 124 ft. square, adjoined by a complex of rooms, passageways and cisterns. At one corner was a formidable tower with three-foot-thick walls, probably designed as a lookout post and last-ditch defense point. Other rooms included kitchens and refectories, a scriptorium and a pottery (where the scrolls' storage jars were presumably made). Flour mills, storage bins and ovens have also been 'uncovered, indicating a highly self-sufficient community...
...Mediterranean through Iraq and Turkey, and to examine other ways of getting around Nasser. The world's shipyards are working at capacity building supertankers to carry Persian Gulf oil around Africa at no greater cost per barrel than smaller tankers going through Nasser's nationalized ditch...