Word: ditching
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...Iran, one undeniable gain of the week's events was the fact that this time the U.S. and Britain were acting in concert in the Middle East. Cracked one Englishman who had been against Suez: "At least, the U.S. has now been found drunk in the same ditch with...
...campaign manager and Republican national committeeman, quit the Knowland campaign. Shattuck was criticized because he ran an ineffectual organization and, as a committeeman, should have been representing the whole party instead of one candidate-but mostly because his candidate did so badly. ¶ Lest fidgety Republican campaign contributors ditch Knowland as a lost cause, Vice President Richard M. Nixon passed the word that he would help raise money at G.O.P. fund-raising dinners only on the promise that all the money collected would go into a united Republican campaign kitty...
Author Heinrich is at his best as he describes the last-ditch stand of decimated German regiments against Russian divisions led by a hundred tanks. Towns burn, civilians are blown to bits, whole battalions are destroyed as they try to carry out orders from an incompetent division adjutant. Over the ghastly scene the snowy Carpathians loom like symbols of nature's indifference. But Heinrich neither needs nor uses literary symbolism. With a spare, brutal directness of language, he is able to show how men fight and die, convey the pressing of a trigger, the spreading stain of blood...
...neutrons in the reactor rise above a critical level, showing that an excursion has started, the uranium fissions at a rate that creates enough heat to melt the solder. Then high-pressure gas will shoot neutron-absorbing poison into the reactor. Even if other controls have failed, this last-ditch nuclear fire extinguisher will keep the reactor from exploding or melting itself into radioactive...
...pressing rank, and line supporting line. The red flags wave, their horsemen gallop up and down; the arms of eighteen thousand men, barrel and bayonet, gleam in the sun, a sloping forest of flashing steel. Right on they move, as with one soul, in perfect order, without impediment of ditch, or wall or stream, over ridge and slope, through orchard and meadow, and cornfield, magnificent, grim, irresistible...