Word: last-ditch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
HANOVER, N.H.--Clutch foul shooting by Dartmouth thwarted a last-ditch Harvard comeback as the Big Green held on to defeat the Crimson cagers, 77-74, here in Thompson Arena last night before a sparse gathering...
...topics on the Mexico City agenda: smuggling, fishing rights, narcotics and Carter's staple, human rights. But the President's three days in Mexico City will be basically an exercise in emotional diplomacy. After months ol frustration over SALT, Iran and other foreign policy problems -including the last-ditch meeting of Egyptian and Israeli Foreign Ministers to be held at Camp David on Feb. 20-the President looks on Mexico as an area in which he can make headway. In fact his low-keyed, unimperial presidency may be exactly what is needed. As a top White House adviser...
...locker rooms of professional athletics, Lasch sniffs the odor of terminal degradation. Sport, once the arena of heroes and spiritual renewal, is now a stage for entertainers. The "dictum-'winning isn't the most important thing, it's the only thing,' " says Lasch, "represents a last-ditch defense of team spirit in the face of its deterioration...
...become bestsellers in Britain, and for good reason: they combine all too human characters, masterly plotting and impeccable research. Black Camelot is all Kyle guile. The novel is set in the waning months of World War II, when the Third Reich's slimier survivors are engaged in a last-ditch struggle...
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith flew to the U.S. last week in a last-ditch effort to promote his faltering bi-racial interim government with the American public, and even before leaving Salisbury, he got an unexpected boost for his cause from an old enemy. Faced with a grave fertilizer shortage that threatened famine and food shortages, Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda reluctantly announced that he would reopen his country's border with Rhodesia to permit vital imports and to allow the rail shipment of Zambian copper to ports in South Africa and Mozambique...