Word: basins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock one morning last week, Nick arose in his Villanova dormitory, got a length of telephone wire and went down into the basement. There he noosed one end of the wire around his neck, got up on an old wash basin, tied the other end of the wire around a ceiling pipe. Then he jumped. Some time between then and noon, when a team trainer found him, the wire broke under the strain. By then, it was too late for Nick Liotta...
...Steel's new Fairless Works. It will cost $400 million. Giant earthmovers are clawing across 3,800 acres of bean fields and tomato patches; 6,000 construction workers are laying 20 miles of paved roads and 75 miles of railroad. Huge shovels scoop out the river basin to dock ore ships that will come from Venezuela...
...years from now, the churchmen believe. the sparse clusters of houses and lonely filling stations will be thriving communities. Irrigation in the Columbia River basin is expected to raise the population of some sites from nearly zero to as much as 15,000 by 1960. With the help of the National Council of Churches, the denominations intend to be ready with a church for every 1,500 to 2,000 Protestants, churchgoing...
That was last week. This morning before breakfast I hardly made it to the basin, because on the way I was urged "not to be a pill," learned the name of two other girls who weren't pills, and found out that the voting booths were the places where "particular people congregated." Diving into the wrong mailbox by mistake, I yanked out a package full of candy corn instead of the letter I was expecting from my insurance company. This was all mute evidence of a vastly vivacious and normal group of girls battling for the honor to lead...
...winding river valleys to the southeast toward the town of Nghia Lo. At dawn French-manned B-26 bombers and Hellcat and Bearcat fighters were roaring off the airfields of Hanoi and Haiphong, a few minutes later were diving between the mist-shrouded peaks surrounding the Nghia Lo basin to plaster the Viet Minh troops with bombs and napalm. Over the town of Nghia Lo, C-47s and three-motored Junkers transports dropped French and Foreign Legion paratroopers, who quickly set up new defenses athwart the mountain passes. At week's end the severely mauled Viet Minh columns pulled...