Word: ditchful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...executive branch won't give us these goals. This brings up a political fact of life. You know perfectly well that you just can't have one car with two drivers at the steering wheel and expect to end up any place but in the ditch-especially when the drivers are set on going in different directions. You cannot have efficient Federal Government when the Congress wants to follow one philosophy of government and the executive branch another. In our system of government, progress is made when the leaders of the executive branch and the majority of Congress...
...same time that Anthony Eden made Britain's commitment toward German sovereignty and rearmament, Britain's most reckless statesman made a last-ditch effort to exploit the fears and emotions aroused by that issue. Aneurin Bevan did not conceal his purpose: to wrest the Labor Party's leadership from the temperate hands of Clement Attlee...
...MOTHER DITCH, by Oliver La Farge (Houghton Mifflin; $2.25), follows a young Spanish-American boy as he earns his bread by the sweat of his brow in the arid New Mexican soil that Novelist-Anthropologist La Farge (Laughing Boy) knows and loves...
...perilously late in the season-the Giants were 13½ out of the lead on Aug. 11. But in a wild and breathless finish, they tied the Dodgers on the last day of the season, beat them in the playoff for the pennant, with Bobby Thomson's last-ditch "Home Run Heard 'Round the World." When they lost the World Series to the Yankees, the Giants comforted themselves with thoughts of next year...
...that way with Lew Archer, quick-thinking, fast-moving hero of John Ross Macdonald's Find a Victim. Tooling along a California highway on the way to Sacramento, he saw "the ghastliest hitchhiker who ever thumbed me. He rose on his knees in the ditch. His eyes were black holes in his yellow face, his mouth a bright smear of red like a clown's painted grin." Archer got him to a motel, but when the fellow died at the hospital, Archer had no intention of calling it quits. Almost before Tony Aquista's body had cooled...