Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ruling, the Justices approved a speeded-up method of processing the last-ditch legal maneuvers of condemned prisoners. Thomas Andy Barefoot, 37, convicted in the shooting death of a police officer in Bell County, Texas, had filed a direct state court appeal, a previous petition to the Supreme Court, state court habeas corpus proceedings and, when all those failed, a federal habeas corpus petition, which reached the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit last November. The appeals court denied his plea for a stay of execution...
...Alliance's last-ditch efforts to attract anti-Thatcher sentiment received a timely boost from Labor Leader Michael Foot's manifest ineptness on the stump, as well as from the growing disarray within the Labor Party. The leftist New Statesman abandoned its traditional support for Labor, urging its readers to vote for the Alliance in an effort to "stop Thatcherism in its tracks." Concluded the 70-year-old weekly: "The priority now must be to deny Mrs. Thatcher her goal of a working majority large enough for her to railroad through another five years of New Rightism...
...guerrillas are in the Soviet camp and it may be too late for a peaceful settlement. Yet continued civil war--and that, clearly, is the logical result of Reagan's policy, for side, short of outright intervention by the United States, can win--means more senseless deaths. A last--ditch attempt at a settlement is imperative if we are to prevent the Vietnam analogy from becoming more than just effective rhetoric. But as the recent dismissals of Undersecretary of State for Central American Thomas O. Endears and U.S. ambassador to El Salvador Dean Hinton show, such a change in policy...
During a brief lull in the shooting, our driver threw the Jeep into reverse and backed in drunken swerves 100 yards away from the heaviest fighting. We scrambled out into a shallow roadside ditch filled with weeds and dried cow manure and spent the next hour in intimate contact with the ground. The fighting finally died down and the contras retreated, leaving eleven dead. Four of the seven Jeeps in the convoy had suffered casualties, the three in front of us and the one immediately behind...
Remarkably few tears are shed in Sister Age, but those that fall linger in the memory. In Moment of Wisdom, a tired, frail old man, as "dry as a ditch weed," comes calling at the homestead outside Whittier with Bibles for sale. The twelve-year-old girl who answers the door refuses a Bible but offers a glass of water. As the old man walks away, the child is astonished to find her eyes filling up. She thinks: "If I could have given him something of mine . . . If I had next week's allowance and had not spent this...