Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...innovations: 1) to ditch realism for abstraction in the sets, 2) to make the stern old gods of Valhalla look less like period pieces. Designer Wieland Wagner's argument: the world has changed and so must the cult of Wagner...
...most illustrious names in Mormonism: his grandfather had been a cousin of Founder Joseph Smith. George worked hard to live up to his name. His father's house had no front lawn and he labored to put one in, then toted water for it from an irrigation ditch every night. He started to work making overalls, later on he became a successful salesman...
Delegate Binder said the U.S. would reject the treaty and any such amendments, made clear that he would fight to the last ditch if other nations forced a final U.N. vote. If such a phony freedom treaty ever is signed, foreign politicos will certainly use it with great self-righteousness to throttle U.S. news-gathering abroad...
...shirt jumped out, a pistol in his hand. It was Cook. He took Waldrip's pistol and ammunition belt, walked him out to his patrol car, told him to drive south into the desert. He bragged that he had thrown the Mosser bodies into a ditch, had killed seven people in all, and "would just as soon kill you." But after 35 miles, he tied the deputy's arms, set him down in the fierce sun, andafter a moment of ominous hesitationdrove...
Afterward, one passenger remembered seeing "the fence coming" and hearing someone yell: "We're going to crash." Within seconds, the National Airlines DC-4 was skidding along the sleet-coated runway of Philadelphia's International Airport. It ran off the runway, through a ditch. Its landing gear disintegrated, flames shot from a ruptured fuel tank...