Word: canals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...silly to treat our dispute with Panama with courage and resolve and that we should go further than halfway in settlement. Size is not relevant. We have nothing to be ashamed of. The end result of negotiating with Panama will be the gift of the U.S.'s canal...
...silly to treat our dispute with Panama with courage and resolve and that we should go further than halfway in settlement. Size is not relevant. We have nothing to be ashamed of. The end result of negotiating with Panama will be the gift of the U.S.'s canal...
...PANAMA. Three months after the Canal Zone riots, the U.S. and Panama ended their silly semantic squabble and agreed "to seek prompt elimination of the causes of conflict between the two countries without limitations or preconditions of any kind." Diplomatic relations were restored, and Johnson immediately named fellow Texan Robert B. Anderson, who was Dwight Eisenhower's second Secretary of the Treasury, as special U.S. emissary to work out "a just and fair agreement." As the new Ambassador to Panama, he named Latin American Peace Corps Director Jack Hood Vaughn, an ex-boxer and Marine captain. Said Johnson: "This...
...Nefertiti, and the whole Afro-Asian bit. Some minor poets have even brooded over her fathomless Mesopotamian stare, as if her unique countenance could only have developed somewhere between the Tigris and the Euphrates. In truth, however, she was born and raised between Newtown Creek and the Gowanus Canal...
...Three Canals. Man's external ear, even at its best, is merely decorative, and the transmission of sound waves through the canal and eardrum to the tiny vibrating bones (ossicles) is a relatively simple matter of sound mechanics. When the vibrations reach the cochlea, they are converted, by a somewhat more complex process, into electrical impulses for transmission to the brain along auditory nerves...