Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lying houses were inundated; in west Texas, schools closed and highways were awash with silt-brown water. At Snyder, Texas, an earthen dam, weakened by the long, dry spell, gave way; 50 oil-well sites were flooded out. Near Hobbs, N. Mex., 100 sheep marched into a flooded ditch and drowned en masse...
When the trial began in Milan, Journalist Guareschi turned out to have a very poor case. He could not produce the purported original of the letter (it was in the hands of a shadowy, last-ditch Fascist living in Switzerland, who has had little luck in many attempts to peddle such letters to Italian journalists) De Gasperi's lawyers flourished a communication from Viscount Alexander, the Allies' wartime commander in Italy, who said "all that is written in the alleged letter does not agree with what I remember." They also produced a communication from the supposed recipient, Lieut...
...windfall came just in time. Only a month before, Publisher Gilbert Harrison, 38, onetime national chairman of the American Veterans Committee, had begun a last-ditch "campaign to save the New Republic [and to enable it] to continue publication." Gil Harrison thinks it is "too early" to tell what the effect of his wife's inheritance will be, points out that the magazine is still in need of immediate cash, and believes-in any case-that one family should not permanently support it. Said Harrison: "I don't know yet how we can help. But whither...
...fully justified Barnaby's pre-season fears and both teams are pointing for the Crimson. On the basis of matches thus far, there seems little to choose between them. Army scraped out a 5 to 4 win over the Tigers in a recent meeting but it took a last-ditch, five-game victory by the Cadet's number five man to clinch the match...
Since 1924, when floods washed out one section of the waterway, no freight at all has moved on the canal, and the placid ditch, its tree-grown canal path, its long strip of riverside woodland, are frequented only by occasional hikers, naturalists or canoeists. Recently the Government began planning construction of a modern, two-lane automobile highway to open the area and its delightful vistas to the general public. But last week, when the Washington Post ran an editorial commending the parkway scheme, it received a sharp and moving dissent. Its author: woods-wise, mountain-loving Supreme Court Justice William...