Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police checked so thoroughly that business fell off sharply in restaurants normally used by politicians to impress constituents. But it was not long before the politicians were getting around the rules. One candidate hit upon the idea of driving his hired car into a ditch every time he saw a group of farmers, then paying the farmers 100 yen each to haul him out, chatting all the while about himself and his platform. Police reported 972 violations of the election laws, including 473 cases of vote buying. Thirteen unsuccessful candidates were thrown into jail the day after the election. Among...
Cleveland Manager Al Lopez had closed the gap to half a game at one point by the last-ditch expedient of regularly rotating his top three pitchers, Mike Garcia (20-9), Bob Lemon (19-10) and Early Wynn (21-12), giving them only two days' rest between starts. Giant Manager Leo Durocher, juggling a crippled pitching staff, pulled up to within 3 games of the Dodgers, thanks largely to the standout performance of Relief Pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm (13-3), who has worn a path from bullpen to pitcher's mound this season in no less than 63 games...
...Ernest Jones chipped in with rough-hewn Socialist logic: "If British miners were called upon to rearm in the interest of American capitalism and the Tory party, there'd be a devil of commotion . . . But . . . where freedom [is] at stake . . . the British miner [will be] in the last ditch of the struggle...
Last week Britannia, who has never hesitated to claim mastery over the waves, reduced the Atlantic to mere ditch-size. The three-man crew of a sleek, black & silver British Canberra Mark V jet bomber took off from Northern Ireland's Aldergrove Airport one morning, crossed the Atlantic, had lunch in Gander, Newfoundland, and were back at Aldergrove in time for tea. Flying time: 7 hrs. 59 minutes...
Married. Robert L. Smith, 21, first quadruple amputee of the Korean war; and Barbara Borm, 17, a volunteer worker he met when she visited the Army's Walter Reed Hospital; in Washington. In November 1956 Smith lay wounded in a ditch for three days; by the time he was rescued his hands and legs were so badly frozen they had to be amputated...