Word: ditching
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...work of Allsopp's manatees was so dramatic that planters and irrigation officers all over British Guiana demanded some of this free labor for their own ditches. Allsopp encouraged fishermen to net the harmless beasts gently (despite their 8-ft. length, manatees are easily bruised or drowned) in the jungle rivers, and he rigged a laboratory truck with a sort of canvas bath to carry them to the ditches. He now has 31 at work, happily chewing water weeds throughout the colony, and 65 more have been ordered from the fishermen. Inquiries about manatees as ditch cleaners have come...
...Deep. By week's end it was apparent that New Orleans would be no Little Rock. For one thing, Jimmie Davis and his legislature, perhaps mindful of Little Rock, did not care to back their last-ditch segregation laws with National 'Guard power, and after flare-ups of violence they began calling for moderation. For another, New Orleans' 1,073-man police force, firmly directed by Mayor Morrison and his youthful (37) Chief Joseph Giarrusso, held the violence in check, gave Davis little justification for moving in with emergency troops. Davis actually had little support among...
...last-ditch drive in the game's closing minutes provided Crimson football with its most exciting moments of the year. Two Bartolet passes covered 85 yards, and when Bert Messenbaugh hauled in Bartolet's second touchdown pitch of the day, even the writers in the press box, who rarely get excited about anything, were on their feet...
Score Last-Ditch Goal...
...Crimson started its last-ditch on the Harvard 15, after Boone McIntyre--for the second time in game--had inexplicably let a Sulli- punt roll between them. On the first , Bartolet threw to Boone on the Harvard 45. He ran ten yards, then lat- to Pete Hart, who was thrown out on the Princeton 33. Then Bartolet tossed a perfect lead pass to Mesbaugh for the score...