Word: ditching
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...Stuvvins's final proposal is at best mediocre and is in fact analagous to draining the IAB pool and installing study carrels there. (Who is to say that a student shouldn't plunge into his work anyway?) The moat surrounding the library clearly characterizes the plan as a last-ditch attempt to artificially improve upon an area best preserved in its natural state. Once the library is completed, how many will never see the grassy knoll that rises past Houghton to a stand of lilac trees, soon to be mere statistics in the University archives...
President Nixon's sinking ship of state sprung a few more leaks this week, and it seems likely that the Chief Executive will ask for mass resignations in a last-ditch effort to plug the holes before the Administration boat hits rock-bottom...
...massive rescue effort by nearly 50 U.S. planes. But for Kasler the Viet Nam War was all over, and he wished that they would go away. He was in intense pain and very thirsty, but because of the presence of U.S. planes overhead his captors laid him in a ditch and hid him under banana leaves...
...make the clean cars. Adding drama to the decision making is the fact that Ruckelshaus turned down a similar request for more time last year. He held last week's hearings only because of a court order obtained by the automakers. For them, it was a last-ditch effort...
...public ditch...