Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Holiday Spirit. In Fort Benning, Ga., after explaining to authorities that he took a ship from the Canal Zone instead of an airplane, Pfc. Merry Christmas was forgiven for reporting two weeks late...
...Seattle undertakers, John F. Hennessy and Earl J. Cassedy, had a snack of cold turkey sandwiches with a friend on Queen Anne Hill, drove off toward home -and vanished completely. Last month, harbor patrolmen found them in Hennessy's automobile at the bottom of the Lake. Washington Ship Canal. One day last week, Gladys Hennessy, the undertaker's widow, was driving along an icy road with a woman friend and her five-year-old son Patrick (who was wearing a Saint Christopher medal taken from his father's body). The automobile skidded and plunged into the Wenatchee...
Traditionally suspicious of any strong nation lying across the colonial lifelines, Great Britain is the one nation violently opposed to negotiations which would leave Israel dominant in the Middle East. British strategists view the emergence of a powerful state in Palestine as a direct threat to the Suez Canal, to the vital oil deposits in Iraq, and to the proposed airbases in the Negeb. For these purely military reasons, plus the fact that the Middle East is the one remaining area where Great Britain can exert Imperial power, the British have consistently supported the Arab cause and have pressed...
...cast about for allies, and finding Soviet Russia eager to expand its sphere of influence, would accept Russian economic and military aid. With this rapprochement between Israel and the Soviet completed, American and British statesmen could congratulate themselves on moving their enemy some 800 miles closer to the Suez Canal...
...remote-controlled gadgets. They include a windup auto controlled by a long wire ($2.29), an electric truck operated by a 35-ft. cord ($39.50) and Erector's new $50 set to build a mechanical man that actually walks. Most complex of all is a plastic canal with hand-operated locks and boats which are propelled by electrified bars along the side...