Word: last-ditch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...days later and confronted his accuser. "Senator Schoeppel's statement," said Chapman, ". . . can be dismissed as malicious and irresponsible . . . another instance of the use of the smear technique which has become the stock in trade of little men in high places." Its purpose, he declared, was a "last-ditch attempt to block statehood for Alaska" by suggesting that "my motives in advocating [it] are sinister and evil...
...Last Stand. On that island outpost, the men of order had another chance. For a time after V-J day, a 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...
...mainland, are almost hopelessly doomed by sheer numbers if the Reds are ready to waste Chinese lives freely, as no doubt they are. Further, remembering the past, I think it is still easy to wonder whether or not the Nationalist high command seriously wants to stage a last-ditch fight to save Formosa...
Twenty yards behind the first rampart Scelba's men were confronted by another. In seven hours of fighting, they dismantled five successive barricades, surrounded and crashed into Red headquarters, hauled its last-ditch fighters off to jail...
...below the falls.*This development, said FPC, would make it possible to cut the region's power costs by one-third to one-half, and perhaps supply cheap power to northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. But the U.S. public utility industry is already closing its ranks for a last-ditch fight on any extension of public power. In the end, Congress will have to make the decision. Last week President Truman left no doubt on his views. The President told his press conference, as far as he was concerned, it was a public development...