Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon as the excitement over Ike's campaign intentions had simmered down, Joe Martin took over from Bill Knowland and got the Glatfelter Hall conference back to brass tacks about the foreign-aid bill. The House, as Ike knew, had already sliced the Administration's last-ditch request by more than half a billion to authorize a foreign-aid program of $3.9 billion for this year. Now in the second go-around it was about to vote the hard cash in an appropriation bill and was flirting with a tough $3.6 billion, recommended by its Appropriations Committee. Things...
...with memberships ranging from bankers to lumberjacks. Each group diagnosed a Snoqualmie ailment. When one of the innumerable "buzz sessions" established that Peggy's pond and the town's irksome high-water level rose and fell together, an improvement district was organized, and a $12,000 drainage ditch eliminated both health hazards. As the study committees pinpointed other problems, action groups took over. The littered railroad right of way through town was cleared of underbrush; downtown business houses were being repainted according to a master color scheme; vacant buildings were torn down to make...
...month the Met's money-harried management threatened to cancel next winter's entire season because the managers and the artists' union could not get together on contract terms. But last week, at the last moment, the Met was saved by one of the soundest last-ditch devices of labor negotiations...
...Bible, both Luke and Matthew are agreed that if the blind lead the blind, both will wind up in the ditch.† In The Fourth World, Novelist Daphne Athas does more than underwrite the common sense of the Gospels. She digs a fictional ditch big enough to hold both the sighted and the sightless, and the world into which she leads the reader would seem simply nightmarish if it did not also ring simply true...
...blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.-Matthew 15:14-Can the blind lead the blind? Shall they not both fall into the ditch?-Luke...