Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary of State he wielded this weapon brilliantly-Trieste, Iran, Guatemala, Indo-China, Malaya, Austria, Formosa Strait, Lebanon, Berlin. He built up even more commanding influence because he wrapped up the political, military, economic and moral complexities of cold war into his own fighting faith. "Freedom must be a positive force that will penetrate," said John Foster Dulles. "If we demonstrate the good fruits of freedom, then we can know that freedom will prevail...
...never got around to doing much about them. What Herbert Morrison said of Dartmoor-"The only thing to do with Dartmoor is to blow it up"-could be said about Pentonville, Wandsworth, Brixton, Wormwood Scrubs and just about all the others. Many are more than a century old, built for treadmill labor and solitary confinement. Bleak Dartmoor itself was. built in 1808 for French prisoners of war, has changed little since the War of 1812 when it held 2,000 captive American seamen...
...sleek, 2,200-ton yacht Lapu Lapu knifed across Tokyo Bay on a trial run at 17 knots, and in her wake eddied a succession of troubles for Carlos Garcia, President of the Philippine Republic. One of 15 ocean-going vessels to be built by the Japanese as war reparations to the Philippines, the Lapu Lapu* cost $2,500,000, is 275 feet long and powered by diesel engines. She will carry a crew of 92, and has room for 48 passengers...
...rich soil, it brought the boom. As the dread Panama disease, a killing blight, ravaged older banana plantations through Central America, Galo Plaza spent every dollar his government could spare to open up the virgin coastal plain, where rich topsoil lay three feet thick. In ten years Ecuador built 1,600 miles of road. United Fruit opened a 7,000-acre plantation. Poor settlers from the highlands joined in and got 124 acres of government land free. Now Ecuador is the world's biggest banana exporter, with shipments of $70 million last year...
Rich Man's Game. Court tennis in the U.S. is restricted largely to the wealthy. There are just seven courts in the whole country, only one private one-built by Payne Whitney in 1915 on his Long Island estate at an estimated cost of $250,000. But its adherents find court tennis endlessly fascinating, and in the last five years the game has experienced something of a revival, as Harvard, Yale and Princeton organized teams...