Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Take a good look at this man, boys," said Dr. William C. Gorgas to his staff as they performed an autoosy on a Panama Canal construction worker in 1905. "It's the last case of yellow fever you'll ever see. There'll be no more deaths from this cause in Panama." So thoroughly had General Gorgas stamped out Aëdes aegypti mosquitoes and the fever they carry, that his prediction lasted for about 44 years...
...route from North China to new Nationalist lines just 30 miles above Nanking. Defended "by less than 100,000 second-line troops, Chiang's capital was open to a giant pincer attack at two points: Yangtze River crossings east of the city at the mouth of the Grand Canal, or to the west where they also could mass river craft...
...uncertain as to what he actually was. He sometimes regarded himself as two persons ... At night, frequently, he imagined there was an intruder creeping about the room ..." Down to his last dollar, he went to the East River to drown himself. A drunken Scotsman danced around him singing. A canal boatman offered him a ride to Tonawanda. He gave up suicide, set out the next day to pawn his watch. On the way he met brother Paul, who tearfully pressed a roll of bills into his hand and sent him to a sanatorium for rest...
Before the war she frequently took groups of musicians to Europe with her. She has, in fact, presented concerts in practically every large city. She declines to verify a story about a visit to Venice. Riding down the Grand Canal in a gondola one day, it is said, her craft was suddenly surrounded by a host of others, full of Venetians shouting thanks to the great American who had helped their Malipiero. She tosses it off as legend and indeed she is bound to be legendary. As well as being the most generous music patron in America...
Five Planes. Their pleasure was shortlived. On the very day the Palestine ceasefire took effect, five British reconnaissance planes were shot down over Egypt by Israeli fighters and ground batteries. The planes, said the British, were operating from British bases in the Suez Canal Zone; they were under orders to keep an eye on the movements of the Israeli army into Egypt...