Word: ditchful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speed, skimming down the ice toward the Detroit goal. To Richard, the Red Wing goalie was more than an opponent. He was a bitter enemy, a monstrous mass of protective padding designed to stop what Richard enjoys doing most: scoring goals. Detroit Goalie Terry Sawchuck, with a last-ditch deflection, stopped the Rocket's shot, but in ten seasons of National Hockey League play, few goalies have been able to stop the Montreal Canadiens' Richard for long. In Canada and the U.S., he is the Babe Ruth of professional ice hockey...
...Young Republican Club, in a statement yesterday, denounced President Truman's new clarification directive as a "last-ditch usurpation, utilized for the purpose of concealing the incompetence and colossal blunders of the Truman administration...
...could not place." The general's Pentagon pals try to break up the affair with Dottie, but they needn't have worked so hard at it. It was never Dottie's idea to live in a cottage with a general turned nonentity. She decides to ditch him, but has the good grace to let Mel think it is, his own idea...
...idle threat. The majors will force them into some kind of compromise at the December meetings, and we'll be back about where we were." But other Coast League men angrily denied this. Said C. L. (Brick) Laws, owner of the Oakland team and another last-ditch foe of the draft: "We're all living or dying together in this deal, and if the majors won't go along, to hell with...
...Germans captured him, but Embry was back in Britain again within ten weeks. He made his first break-from a marching column of P.W.s-by taking a lightning header into a ditch of muddy water. The guards never saw him go. He exchanged his R.A.F. uniform for "the most beautiful coat he'd ever seen" (he borrowed it from a scarecrow) and headed for the British lines...