Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Upton Sinclair showed that he was capable of a change of pace. Sticking to his promise to ditch his ubiquitous, ten-novel hero, Lanny Budd, he wrote Another Pamela; or, Virtue Still Rewarded, a sly gibe at rich, talky parlor liberals seen through the wide eyes of an ingenuous housemaid. His literary model: 18th Century Novelist Samuel Richardson's famed Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded...
...Colonel Kim, the R.O.K. commander, was just ahead. As we rounded a curve the whole side of the mountain ahead of us opened up with fire. Colonel Kim's driver was mortally wounded by the first volley. My jeep was hit all over as we went for the ditch and fired back. My interpreter was killed and several others were hit. Twenty-five minutes later the enemy had overrun our position...
...business." Apparently the Communists had stopped to rest or wait for supplies over the rugged caravan tracks and lofty passes from China. Meanwhile, the boy Dalai Lama and his elderly Regent Takta Rimpoche still seemed to be in Lhasa, accord ing to Sinha; they debated flight to India, last-ditch resistance, or submission to the Chinese. From Lhasa's Potala Palace to the U.N.'s Security Council went a mesage asking for help against "unprovoked aggression." There seemed not a chance...
...hedge. There, in the middle of a small kitchen garden planted with cabbage, was a red stake marked 38. "This is where your land begins," explained Conti. Amerigo's jaw dropped. "But this garden?" he wondered. Conti answered: "It's included. Your land goes to the ditch down there. Takes in half that oak tree." Amerigo exclaimed: "The acorns from that tree will be enough to keep a pig. We will have sausage at home...
...been waging last-ditch battles against socialism for 30 years. From ditch to ditch they have retreated, but they drag their guns along, ever convinced that the hole they're in at the moment is "The American...