Word: canals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such a settlement, if it happens, will probably involve some of the devices that the U.S. cautiously broached to its allies three weeks ago: 1) a 13-nation authority to control access on the road, rail, canal and air routes to Berlin; 2) a nonaggression pledge between NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations; 3) a joint promise to keep atomic weapons out of the hands of nations not now possessing them; 4) joint committees with East and West German members to discuss mutual problems...
manhole covers, guided groups in East Berlin lowered themselves into the sewer, hunched through the shoulder-high canal, emerged in West Berlin beneath an automobile placed over the open manhole...
...heavy Dutch food, and "digesting potatoes, even for one day," concluded the committee soberly, "is a punishment for an Italian.'' A happier solution to the Italian housing problem in Holland was found by lodging 100 Latins on a 30,000-ton ship anchored in the North Sea canal at Ijmuiden. directly opposite the steel plant where they work. Aboard the floating hotel they were served Italian food...
...paint on masonite boards with palette knives, sometimes sprinkling on gold dust to provide added brilliance. Failing to find much spiritual light in Bowery life, he moved to Venice in 1948. There, he would wait, thinking and absorbing, until the last rays of the afternoon sun shimmered across a canal into his studio; only then would he begin to paint. "Sometimes," he says, "I finished a picture in 20 minutes. It was an explosion...
...Lords, there was a Prime Minister (Rosebery) with a Rothschild wife, a host of great English families with Rothschild blood. Disraeli was dining with Lionel Rothschild the night a Rothschild courier brought in a message from the Khedive of Egypt, offering to sell his shares in the Suez Canal for ?4,000,000. Since the Bank of England could not scrape up the money to meet the 48-hour deadline. Lionel politely supplied the cash...