Word: ditchful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...About 3 or 4 in the afternoon, they got us up and moved us again down near a ditch. There was 20 of them on this side of us, and 20 over here. I heard the Reds' weapons going off and I heard our boys groaning and grunting. I said to myself: 'Please, Lord, don't let 'em get us with these burp guns...
...carpetbagging Nationalist regime did great harm on Formosa. When Chiang's Nationalist government arrived, it carried with it from the mainland many of the weaknesses and the faults it had suffered before, but the realization-always bracing to strong men -of having to make a last-ditch stand had purged the Nationalists. Above all they were removed, if only 100 miles across the Straits of Formosa, from the Reds' corrosive power. Even Chiang Kai-shek's bitter foes concede that his government on Formosa is better than any Nationlist government of the past. Formosa (for 50 years...
...plane identification since the Seventh Fleet would stay completely away from Formosa. Incredulous Chinese officials pointed out that planes from a U.S. carrier would surely at some time or other approach the Formosan coast. What if a U.S. plane were in trouble far from its carrier-would it ditch at sea rather than land on Formosa? The American attitude remained: you boys just relax, you'll never see Seventh Fleet ships or planes...
...first thing, says the dean, is to ditch class discussion and stick to the lecture method. This places the professor right off in a position of advantage and makes it unnecessary for him to answer questions. "It helps, too, if you avoid the practice of organizing your lecture's," for this will give the impression that "yours is the brilliant, untrammeled mind, of genius...
...Trunk. As a rule Trollope wrote his novels as lustily and naturally as he hunted a fox-plunging ahead full tilt, changing course where & when he or his quarry pleased, never knowing nor caring what insurmountable fence or un-jumpable ditch might pop up in the next chapter. Inspiration, he was always the first to insist, had nothing to do with it. He got up every morning at 5:30 and wrote with calm assurance until breakfast, after which he took up his duties as a hard-working civil servant in the Post Office. When he had written enough...