Word: ditched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adaptable. In Monterey, Calif., Joe Gilliland lost his auto license after three arrests for drunken driving, was presently jolted into the ditch while doing some drunken horse-&-buggy driving...
...bushy-bearded, one-armed Henry Baldwin (he lost the other arm in a cane-mangler) who built the Baldwin dynasty. He went partners with Sam Alexander, son of another missionary. At a cost of $80,000 and harrowing effort, Henry built the 17-mile-long Hamakua Ditch to bring irrigation to the cane fields. With son Frank, he once swam a flooded gulch in order to get to church. Through such God-fearing boldness, coupled with Yankee-trader shrewdness, the business prospered, became one of the "Big Five"* which reach across the biggest part of Hawaii's economy...
...Last week's merger, said Baldwin, would 1) wipe out duplicate bookkeeping and other management functions, 2) make for a more efficient distribution of the 400 million gallons of water which another Baldwin-controlled company annually sends through the irrigation system started by old Henry's Hamakua Ditch...
...week's end, members of the Southern Governors' Conference loudly announced that things were all wrong. Seven members (six governors and Virginia's Senator Byrd, who represented Governor Tuck) voted to "fight to the last ditch" against the nomination or election of Harry Truman or any other candidate advocating equal rights for Negroes...
...escape, Chryssoula volunteered for front-line duty. In the retreat after the Salonika action, she marched until exhausted and fell into a ditch. "The captain I was most afraid of," she said, "came up and pointed his pistol. Then the airplanes came over. Everyone scattered. I got away...