Word: barriere
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...fill in the bay and create industrial sites, the government dumps more than 1,000 tons of garbage there every day. Since typhoons carried away parts of the barrier that was supposed to contain the offal, it drifts out and forms a putrescent bilge that swills around the city. For a long time, not even her best friends would tell her. Then last week Senior City Councilor Arnaldo de Oliveira Sales took an olfactory tour of Hong Kong in a helicopter and pronounced that even from 300 feet up the place stank. The government promised that Gin Drinkers...
...only turnabout made fair plays, the coming Broadway season would be a sizable cut above its predecessors. Reversing the East-West brain drain in a migration unprecedented since movies broke the sound barrier, Hollywood writers and composers have turned out so many plays and musicals this year that they threaten to outnumber old Broadway hands in the coming 1964-65 playbills...
They had a key that opened the heavy, studded oak door, and another key to unlock the steel grill barrier just inside...
Distances & Delights. Chief problem for Europeans is the language barrier. The Japanese don't expect to communicate in anything but English, but most Continentals can get along in at least one other language besides their own, and it comes as a shock to find the Americans so relentlessly monolingual. The cash value of tourism, though, is bound to engender more linguistic proficiency. In only a year's time, New York City's Newtom Commuting Corp., has built up a booming hired-car service around the idea of having polylingual chauffeurs, who pick up foreigners at the airport...
...real question involved, he said, is not a matter of saving a few feet or a few trees, but rather: "Shall access to the riverbank be maintained for Cantabridgians, shall play and recreation areas be preserved, will the present planting of trees be preserved or will a barrier be created between the residents of Cambridge and their waterfront...