Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comparison, everything else in the book seems minor, though continually interesting. Inside the Whale is a long, over generous celebration of Novelist Henry (Tropic of Cancer) Miller, in which Orwell sees Miller as a last-ditch individualist thumbing his nose at a mechanized world. England Your England is an impressionistic survey of Orwell's native land, in which he uses such unconventional criteria as the difference between the German's strutting goose step and the English parade step ("merely a formalised walk") to score some shrewd points about the strength of democracy...
...Nkrumah broke with Danquah at an open-air meeting in the village of Saltpond. It was not his own idea. His "young men" threatened to ditch him if he did not grab the leadership from Danquah's "fuddy-duddies." Nkrumah got scared. He leaped on to a table and shefuted, "My life is in danger ... If I refuse to lead them, they will kill me!" At that, a girl disciple jumped up alongside him and started singing Lead, Kindly Light. The audience joined in, and Nkrumah suddenly knew that his hour had struck. His Convention People's Party...
...tires squealed as the car rocked far over and skidded around. Then came scores of other tests. The car was sent hurtling around right-angle turns, driven over cunningly contrived bumps that jarred the teeth of the driver (and would have thrown a less-skilled man into the ditch). It was sent splashing through a shallow tank of water. For six months the car was driven, in well-shrouded secrecy, until it had piled up more than 100,000 miles. Not till then did Studebaker Corp. engineers feel that they had worked all the bugs...
...said I had eaten no breakfast and was dizzy. I pretended illness and asked for water and food. But he wouldn't open that door. I offered to intercede with [Defense Secretary Ramon] Magsaysay for him. I said the left engine was stalling and that we had to ditch the plane. I put on a life jacket, gave him one, and pretended to panic. He said O.K., look for land...
...Japs didn't finish him off after pistol-whipping him, trussing him up and dangling his feet over the edge of a death ditch. Author Braddon still doesn't know. Instead, his captors yoked him to eight fellow-Aussies, prodded the group with bayonets and jeers of "Georgey Six, number ten! Tojo, number one!" and marched them off to Pudu, a prison camp in Kuala Lumpur. On the way, the sons of the Rising Sun treated Braddon to some grisly samples of the new order. At one point, his guards collared a senile old Chinese...