Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night wore on, rescue workers-now numbering 150-tried a new scheme: men with pneumatic jack hammers began the ear-splitting job of tearing up the garage floor. A huge bucket crane rumbled ponderously into the garage. The rescuers began digging a deep slanting ditch to connect with the well. All night, all through the early morning, as the frantic work went on, people took turns kneeling at the mouth of the well to encourage Dominick...
...mainland, are almost hopelessly doomed by sheer numbers if the Reds are ready to waste Chinese lives freely, as no doubt they are. Further, remembering the past, I think it is still easy to wonder whether or not the Nationalist high command seriously wants to stage a last-ditch fight to save Formosa...
...burning up the road in a new Lincoln, missed a turn and was hauled out, fatally injured, from the smoking wreck. The Cadillac Coche México, hightailing southward from Ciudad Juarez at better than 100 m.p.h., screeched off a hairpin curve, rolled over three times into a rocky ditch. The drivers, unhurt, crawled back, started the engine, and somehow finished the day's lap-in 69th place. In his 1950 Cadillac, ex-Pilot William Sterling of El Paso paced the pack over the first 228 miles at an average 107 m.p.h...
Twelve hours after leaving Honolulu he was strapped into a seat in a lost B-iy, staring out of a porthole at the ocean coming closer, and yelling, "Fifteen feet ... ten feet . . . five feet . . ." as its pilot strained to ditch the Bi; in the trough between two long swells. The plane hit like a car running into a stone wall. Water cascaded in. In two minutes, the plane's eight dazed and bleeding men were afloat on tiny rubber rafts under a brazen...
Twenty yards behind the first rampart Scelba's men were confronted by another. In seven hours of fighting, they dismantled five successive barricades, surrounded and crashed into Red headquarters, hauled its last-ditch fighters off to jail...