Word: causeway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Algeria (pop. 9,000,000 est.), which as a nation is strictly a French creation. Before the French landed in 1830, to chastise the Dey of Algiers for slapping their consul's face with a fly-whisk, the place had been a granary for Rome, a causeway to Western conquest for the Arabs, a nest for Barbary pirates-but never a state or nation...
...pushed down the fence and stoned the U.S. guards; in one of their trucks, guards found six machine guns. The worst fighting broke out at Wolmi Island, the wooded, humpbacked pile where the U.S. marines staged their amphibious assault on Inchon in 1950. Screaming Koreans tried to rush the causeway that joins the island to the mainland, and others stormed ashore from junks. One Korean got shot and two were wounded while trying to land at Wolmi. The G.I.s barricaded the causeway with trucks and jeeps. Reported TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast from Wolmi: "Tanks and .50-caliber machine guns were...
Marshall stood firm, would not release the prisoners, and would not be tempted to violence, although the colony's 4,500 khaki-clad police kept a 24-hour vigil. Across the causeway, on mainland Johore, tough Gurkha troops waited in reserve...
...AFFAIRS) were symptoms of a new and cooler temper in the cold war. There were other readings. Sir Winston Churchill's peroration at the Lord Mayor's banquet in London expressed hope that "we might even find ourselves in a few years moving along a broad, smooth causeway of peace and plenty instead of roaming and peering around on the rim of hell." And the Soviet radio celebrated the 21st anniversary of U.S. diplomatic recognition of Soviet Russia by quoting George Washington: "Nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations . . . should be excluded...
Kibitzing Outer Bankers decided that Canipe was pixilated (their advice to him: go home), and for a while it seemed as if they were right. Six times the tide came in and washed away Canipe's causeway. But on the seventh try the sandy road held fast, and soon the two 'dozers and an escort of trucks were moving down to the "Baboon" and hauling away the cargo. To get the heaviest parts of the cargo ashore, Canipe buried huge steel plates deep in the beach, hooked cables to them and easily slid the unwieldy factory parts ashore...