Word: canalizes
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...officers have studied every possible escape route through river, canal, drainage ditch and cow trail. They are familiar with the telltale habits of their quarry. Most aliens are hungry, dirty, and walk with a nervous gait. Their clothes may betray them. On the wall in Lomblot's office, a big picture frame encloses types of Mexican and American shoe heels so that an agent can tell the difference at a glance...
...high bench. Friends feared that the Justice, deprived of official duties, might soon die. Instead, Douglas is still working away in his court chambers, and the old conservationist has promised friends that he will make his first public reappearance next month at the official dedication of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park as a memorial to him. He has also passed along word that he will send the final manuscript of his 43rd work, the second half of his autobiography, to his publisher this spring. The volume will cover his spirited court years, and once again Douglas will enjoy...
...wants to stop the bureaucracy altogether is Ben Shatz, who is angry at the way the Government acquired 80 acres of his land that lay in the path of a Garrison canal. The Bureau of Reclamation offered $9,000 for the parcel, which Shatz felt was worth $20,000. When he refused the offer, the Government condemned the land, and he had to go to court to get a settlement of $17,000. Shatz has erected a large sign on his property proclaiming: "My Farm Ruined by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation." Says he: "It will stay there until...
...bureau's senior partner in building water-control projects is the Army Corps of Engineers. While also serving as a regular branch of the Army, the engineers have constructed 4,000 projects during the past 152 years. They tamed the Mississippi River, dug the Panama Canal, erected the secret installations that produced the atomic bomb, and along the way earned the wrath of legions of environmentalists...
...budgeted at $323 million. As plans stand, Tenn-Tom, now priced at $1.6 billion, will require the construction of six dams and eleven locks, digging a 27-mile channel through the foothills of the Tennessee ridge and moving more earth than did the construction of the Panama Canal...