Word: ditched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours. The Foreign Ministry sent notes to the NATO powers warning that NATO maneuvers scheduled for late in the week might be used as an excuse for Turkey to attack. The government announced that the next week would be "Fortification Week," devoted to building trenches and earthworks for last-ditch defenses. Radio Moscow chimed in: "The situation is very serious. Turkey is preparing to attack...
...informal press conference, stressed the need to reduce the degree to which the United States and Soviet Russia have divided the world into separate camps. Bevan, however, declined the role of "bridge" between the two camps, saying that the Labour Party in England cannot and will not ditch British commitment to NATO...
...Suez Canal Co., which has been a hen without a nest since Egypt nationalized its big ditch, last week voted itself another career. In Paris, founder stockholders formally launched, the company into new business worlds as a French investment trust corporation. The Suez Canal Co. will invest $2,800,000 in French companies digging for oil in Algerian Sahara, and already owns a 30% chunk of the planned English Channel tunnel project. Other projects under consideration: oil ventures in Canada, iron deposits in North Africa...
...night after that. Arnie will hide in the hole he has dug. A short time after the nightly cell count has revealed the prisoner's absence, brother Palance will kidnap, at the point of a wooden pistol, a motorist on a highway near the prison, and later ditch the car in a residential district, where Arnie's wife will pick him up. As soon as the news of the kidnaping reaches the police, they will assume that the prisoner has escaped, and relax precautions. Whereupon Prisoner Palance will pop out of his hole and over the wall...
...Reasons Why. There were many reasons why the ditch stopped and eventually ditched Napoleon. Napoleon's military and organizational genius failed him -even hindered him-at sea. Nelson could say cheerfully: "Some things must be left to chance-nothing is certain in a naval battle!" But Napoleon demanded certainty all along the line. To him a fleet was just an army that happened to walk on the water. Ordered to wheel left or right, to advance or retreat, the fleet obeyed: only poltroons protested that there was no wind, or too many rocks, or not enough water. Whether...