Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Naples last week went a blackberry-haired Turkish beauty named Gunzeli Basar. Seventeen connoisseurs picked her from a field of twelve as Miss Europe of 1952, even though her rivals protested that the competition was not fair-Gunzeli refused to appear in the last-ditch Bikini suit which is what Europe's best-undressed beauty queens wear these days. Miss France, the runner-up, remarked darkly: "Her thighs are not well modeled." But Gunzeli steadfastly stayed in her (relatively) conservative bathing costume and the judges stuck to their decision. Said Miss Europe, disdaining the movie contract offered...
...theaters were ordered closed and the Salzburg performances canceled. But as a concession to Strauss's great prestige, Goebbels authorized a single "dress rehearsal for technicians," of the composer's new opera. Next day, several members of the cast were handed rifles and drafted into the last-ditch Volkssturm army...
...almost at once by applause. He was, he cried, "more firmly convinced in the righteousness of the Democratic cause than . . . ever before in my entire life . . ." He was not a candidate. But as he went on, it was impossible not to conclude that he was making a hopeless, last-ditch attempt to bring about some improbable stampede of delegates, to set off some improbable rallying of the television audiences. He spoke without a text. "Not," he said, "from a piece of paper, but from the heart." Bathed by applause, he fell into that half trance in which the old-fashioned...
...each other's hands," said he, recalling how Moses needed two men to hold up his hands so that the Israelites could go on winning. "All hands to the wheel, Bob!" cried Dirksen, in the mixed metaphor of the year. "I am in your corner to the last ditch." Bob himself told the delegates that he had been sitting up most of the night figuring, and he could not see how Eisenhower could get more than 560 votes on the first ballot. Said he: "They're shooting the works for a first-ballot nomination, and if they...
South of Travemünde, the eleventh meridian lances through fir-tufted hills. With Teutonic thoroughness, the Reds have driven a 33-ft. strip of plowland through villages, fields and farmyards. On the highways the new divide is a steel barrier, or a deep-dug ditch; sometimes, it is a sea of soft sand, carefully smoothed so as to catch the footprints of all who try to pass. Heavily armed Vopos glare across the meridian at the outnumbered West German guards. Behind them in the Communist hinterland is silence and fear...