Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afternoon trial in the 1000, then ran a superb tactical race to nip Yale's Steve Bittner in the finals. Starting last, the redheaded junior gradually worked his way up to second place. With 200 yards to go, he burst past Bittner un-expectedly and held off a last-ditch challenge to snap the wire...
...president whom they were unable to judge under fire, to find out how he would react under pressure. Here, again, the press will find that the country may be paying dearly for guilt and a responsibility to stability. A final example is how journalists completely ignored the last-ditch chicaneries of Lyndon Johnson (oil deals, airline deals, judgeships to pals) after he announced his abdication on March 31. It was an abdication that many members of the press believed they had forced, and they felt deeply guilty over...
...event of last night's program, the shot put. Kenney broke the five-year-old meet record with a distance of 58'4" on his second toss and held first place until the final round. In dramatic fashion the Crimson captain lofted the sphere 59'7" for a last-ditch victory and a new record. Charlie Ajootian and Bruce Hedendal collected additional points with third and fourth places respectively...
...Cambridge City Council, in a last ditch effort to halt the proposed Cambridge Inner Belt Highway, voted last night to organize a massive march on the Massachusetts state house to take place before the end of January...
...went to the Des Moines Y.M.C.A. with her father to watch her brother in a wrestling match. She walked out to the lobby for a candy bar, and disappeared. Two days later, Anthony E. Williams, a self-styled preacher and accused rapist, calmly led police to a roadside ditch eight miles from Des Moines where her frozen body...