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Word: ditches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allowing him into Iran under pressure from the threat of sanctions. It was the sort of face-saving gesture that has earned the Secretary-General a reputation as a master of diplomatic technicalities and procedures, but its effect was undercut by Vance. Asked if Waldheim's last-ditch diplomacy was the result of U.S. prodding, the Secretary of State forthrightly replied: "I think it is, and I'm delighted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Mission Impossible | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

...woods of northern Minnesota. He flew to Alaska four times and spent 14 days on Attu, a bleak island in the Aleutians, where he saw the green sandpiper. On July 27 he surpassed the previous one-year record by spotting bird No. 658, an American woodcock, near a ditch in Chicago. In early December he flew to Texas in successful pursuit of the white-collared seedeater. That brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Takes One to Know One | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

Unsympathetic to the Crimson cause, the Big Green shoved the cagers into a ditch with a 77-57 walloping in Hanover...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Cagers Tumble Again; Potent Big Green Attack Dominates 77-57 Contest | 1/9/1980 | See Source »

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