Word: causeway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Persian Gulf. He found Bahrein living on an income of something less than $500,000 a year. Sheiks at that time were not in the habit of sharing the wealth. But Belgrave talked the Sheik into electricity for the capital, public health measures, and an inter-island causeway...
...locust conferences (New Delhi, November 1950; Cairo, March 1951) have discussed the problem. One obstacle to effective anti-locust action is that some groups have a pro-locust attitude. When the locust swarms entered India, a group of Jains, whose religion demands strict respect for animal life, built a causeway across a stream to help the locusts on their...
...lumbering Pershing tanks were rumbling over the causeway, and Taplett's battalion began to march slowly into Inchon...
...could see the causeway from Wolmi to Inchon now. Our marines on the little island were spitting tracers at the sea wall on which we were so soon to land. We stopped dead in the water and waited. The rocket ships cut loose, their missiles tearing into Red Beach, turning it into a whistling, howling hell. The sea wall seemed as high as the RCA Building...
...hung from the last rocket explosions and air and ground reeked with cordite fumes. Marines were running in every direction. After a moment I caught sight of Captain Jaskilka standing straight and calmly surveying the situation. He trotted on 150 yards to a small, gutted building near the Wolmi causeway. There he met his executive officer, 1st Lieut. Gilbert R. Hershey (son of Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey). "They all got ashore fine, skipper," reported Hershey...