Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tape recorder, already programmed to fire the Agena's attitude thrusters and begin a series of gentle maneuvers. Instead, the Gemini-Agena began to gyrate violently through space, yawing and rolling at a rapidly increasing rate. Unable to stabilize the joined spacecraft, Armstrong resorted to a last-ditch maneuver: he undocked...
...recent trail of two Russian authors is apparently the first step in a new series of restrictions on artistic freedom in the Soviet Union. Because the Soviet government has managed in recent years to control its artists through unofficial channels, these unexpected proceedings might appear to be a last-ditch maneuver in a losing battle. But the deliberate staging of the trial, almost inviting foreign criticism, is a confident reassertion of the government's right to censor. The harsh sentences imposed by the Supreme Court indicate that this is in fact a precedent for future suppression...
...statements of the North Vietnamese indicate that the Communists are highly skeptical about our ability to fight this kind of war for an extended period of time. To them, apparently, our escalation would represent an unsustainable last-ditch effort. General Vo Nguyen Giap, who defeated the French at Dienbienphu, published an article two weeks ago in the magazine of the North Vietnamese Communist Party, Hoc Tap, in which he emphasized that an enlarged commitment to South Vietnam would prevent the United States from meeting the obligations of its other alliances. Should the Communists cause trouble elsewhere, he reasons, we would...
...thumbs down came in the midst of a last-ditch effort by the President to break the diplomatic impasse. For more than a week, he and his aides had been dropping hints designed, in the words of an Administration official, "to let the North Vietnamese know that they damn well better hurry up." The implication was clear that if they did not, the U.S. had no choice but to resume bombing...
...ever-present bribery. Producing a thick wad of bills, he tried to buy off his captors, then, dressed in pajamas, ran outside, screaming "Don't kill me!" until two soldiers knocked him down and jumped on him. His body was found three days later in a ditch 30 miles from Lagos. Not far away lay Sir Abubakar, also dead...