Word: ditchful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Break for Consumers. While McKay's decision made the last-ditch defenders of public power unhappy, it was good news for the small domestic and rural customers of the private utilities. Since the state keeps a close control on utility rates, they will reap the major benefits from cheaper power. Luckiest of all are the people in McKay's native Portland, Ore. They are supplied by the Portland General Electric Co., which counts on Bonneville for almost three-fourths of its power needs. Last year, when water was low and less power was generated, P.G.E...
...plane, his wife (Phyllis Calvert) has it out with him, learns that he has accidentally killed an unsavory admirer of their daughter (Eileen Moore). What bothers Mills is not so much the killing as the fact that the dead man's body (which he had thrown in a ditch to make it seem a hit & run accident) has mysteriously disappeared...
...passed EDC through both houses. But is German rearmament constitutional? The German Federal Court will not decide until after the German elections on Sept. 6, and if it obeys Mister Dooley's law, the judges will follow the election returns. Adenauer's Socialist opponents are pledged to ditch EDC in favor of "German unity"-although they have not explained how they will achieve unity...
...next morning Allied howitzers and trucks lay sprawled in the ditch along a supply road called the "Goat Trail." Not many ROKs showed up at aid stations or mobile hospitals; most of their wounded were in enemy hands. Stragglers without guns and helmets, and sometimes without shoes, appeared one by one. When asked where their equipment was, they shrugged. One said, "A helmet makes more noise in the bushes than the man who's wearing it does...
...eyes. Then with his pistol he shot him in the back of the neck. A tall, blond sergeant jumped forward and caught his officer's body before it touched the ground. Tenderly, as if carrying a child, the sergeant took the lieutenant's body to the ditch...