Word: last-ditch
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...terms of his last will, nearly all of it went to his much younger third wife Barbara, a Polish immigrant who was once the family chambermaid. And thereby hangs a legal squabble currently featuring the unkindest courtroom disclosures this side of the Von Bülow case. Johnson's six children by previous marriages were virtually all cut from the will. They tar their stepmother as a scheming shrew who came to be the housekeeper and stayed to clean house with a vengeance. She blasts them as decadent offspring making a last-ditch lunge at the old man's checkbook...
Four opponents of aid to the contras, three of them Viet Nam veterans, made a last-ditch effort to scuttle the legislation by holding a hunger strike on the steps of the Capitol. Two of the strikers at week's end were on their 41st day of a water-only diet. The protesters are backed by polls showing that the public opposes aid to the contras...
...South Africa's biggest banks, he didn't want to know her. She didn't have enough for a deposit, he said. She was a bad risk. Leo took time off work and went to plead her case every day for three weeks. Finally, in a last-ditch attempt before her home was reauctioned, she visited the office of the bank's ceo, sat herself down in his reception area and waited. After about six hours, the puzzled ceo invited her into his office. He listened to her story, reviewed her file, sensed her resolve and agreed to loan...
...share, or a total of more than $500 million for the two-thirds of the airline's stock that he did not already own, topping the Texas Air offer by $1 a share. Lorenzo countered at week's end with a $26-a-share bid, but' Icahn disregarded this last-ditch offer, saying that he would continue to purchase TWA stock and close in on the 51% total needed for outright control of the company. Said Icahn's ally Hoglander: "Full steam ahead and damn the torpedoes...
...Harvard kids are brilliant,â said another. It seems that we are putting the entire weight of the IT industry behind this effort to facilitate sexual activity. With a $22.6 billion endowment, it is only natural that Harvard allocates its valuable resources to encourage last-ditch dance floor make-out sessions and spring flings. Just think, we can augment the Widener renovations to include mattresses and cushions in the stacks. Who knows, when students are tired of intercourse, they might even pick up a book...