Word: ditching
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Facing prison time when she is sentenced on Friday, Martha Stewart is running out of options for her defense. A last-ditch bid for a new trial failed late last week; now TIME has obtained a portion of the evidence contained in that effort...
...three strongest boats in the heat—USA1, Italy and Egypt—slowly extended their respective leads over the Crimson during the next 500-meter stretch. But, fueled by its proximity to the eights from France and Great Britain, Harvard launched a last-ditch bid for the final spot in the A Final, pulling to within striking distance, 0.63 seconds out of fourth place by the race’s midway point...
Perhaps realizing that 2 1/2 hr. is a marathon length for a bedtime story, screenwriter Steve Kloves tried a few changes to make this one 15 min. shorter than the first Potter film and 25 min. shorter than the second: take the story at a sauntering pace; ditch the Quidditch, mostly; and (we'd argue with this choice) drop the novel's most arresting scene, a flashback to an earlier band of Hogwarts students on a cross-species nighttime prowl...
...suddenly coming under fire from some sort of artillery piece around the bend. I could also hear the clank of a track vehicle and realized that it was a tank or half-track of some kind. Terrified, I turned, ran like hell, and dove into a deep covered roadside ditch. Already there was a tough old sergeant from the 1st Division lying on his side as one would relax on a sofa. Knowing that the 1st Division was combat experienced, I screamed at him, "I think it's a tank--what the hell can we do now?" He stared calmly...
...terrible carnage. There were gliders upended on the posts and tree stumps left for that purpose by the Germans. There were dead men, and dead cattle and horses everywhere. The men [in our unit] had shot a couple of Germans, and we rolled them off the road into a ditch so that they wouldn't be run over. We walked single file up the road, as the verges could have been mined. There was sniping. I gave instructions that the section leader should give a burst of fire at any thick foliage or any windows that were open. The windows...