Word: ditching
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...October 1944, at the age of 60, with Nazi defeat in view, Reck went too far. He had already become participant in a circle of intellectuals planning for a Hitlerless Germany. When he ignored his draft notice requiring him to serve in the last-ditch Volkssturm, he was arrested for "undermining the morale of the armed forces" and shipped to Dachau. In February 1945, Reck was executed...
...Boston College Eagle Rock Festival turned to Harvard yesterday in a last ditch effort to find an acceptable site for the event, and finding none, went the way of Powder Ridge. It's been cancelled...
...than 75% of the system is already built and plans call for completion of the whole package by 1990. Moreover, the sheer challenge of the feat has become an end in itself. As one water engineer put it: "I see no sense in leaving several hundred miles of concrete ditch uncompleted...
...been rumored that his persistent protests might cause the state to declare him, too, mentally unbalanced, thus inflicting on him the very punishment he denounced. His latest protest may be a straightforward act of great courage, in disregard of consequences. But it may also be a last-ditch effort at self-preservation since, in view of the worldwide attention drawn by Solzhenitsyn's outcry, Russia's rulers might hesitate to move against him. To what extent such tactics might work is doubtful, as is suggested by the case of the brilliant young author Andrei Amal...
...recognized that transporting the nerve gas is far more dangerous than storing it. Citizen protest in Washington and Oregon was quick and vehement: a petition to stop the shipment collected 200,000 signatures; various groups staged "die-ins" to simulate the effects of the gas. As a last-ditch effort, McCall and Governor Daniel J. Evans of Washington sued to block the shipment in U.S. district court. Late last month, President Nixon canceled the plan...