Word: ditchful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four beaches between the Orne and the Vire that the man-toman battle was fought in most savage fury. On Sword, Juno and Gold beaches, British and Canadian troops hurled in an astonishing force of "specialized armor" -mine-clearing tanks, pillbox-blasting tanks, ditch-filling tanks, flamethrowing tanks-but the German 716th Infantry Division, in fortified seaside hotels and summer villas, fought back viciously, inflicting 4,000 casualties...
Behind the comedy lay disasters. A man who befriended Aimee killed himself; one of her lawyers died when his car turned over in a water-filled ditch; a state Superior Court judge who backed Aimee was impeached (but acquitted). Mused Ma Kennedy: "It seems that nearly everyone who has been trying to help us has something happen to them." Perjurers, crackpots and self-seekers erupted from the woodwork; religious animosities blossomed. Through it all, Aimee followed her code: "I only remember the hours when the sun shines, sister!" She got surprising backing from Baltimore's vitriolic H. L. Mencken...
Temperate as they are, Baldy's appeals to reason have earned him the hatred of the traditionalists, who sometimes send back his cartoons with the faces blacked in, or scrawled: "You are a Negro, aren't you, Mr. Baldy?" Recently, a last-ditch racist type, learning for the first time that Baldy's full name was Baldowski, wrote angrily: "I always wondered why you were such a Nigger lover. Now I know. You're one of those foreigners." As a matter of fact, Moderate Baldy was born in Augusta...
...opposing the proposition, "Resolved: That this house thanks God for the Atlantic," members of the Harvard Debate Council pointed out that "The Atlantic is a pretty inactive stretch of real estate," and "a dull, dirty ditch that prevents us from seeing each other as we really...
...explicit of all the witnesses were two Santa Barbara ex-convicts, who testified that mother Duncan offered them $6,000 to kill Frank's pregnant wife. They lured her into a rented automobile, beat her into unconsciousness with a pistol, strangled her, then dumped her body into a ditch. For all this, they complained, mother Duncan paid them only...