Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waded into the water at Cape Griz-Nez, France, blonde, freckle-faced Marilyn Bell, 17, staggered ashore beneath the white cliffs of Dover. The pretty Canadian schoolgirl, first person ever to swim the icy waters of Lake Ontario (TIME, Sept. 20), was the youngest ever to swim the English Channel...
Juan de Fuca Strait, a frigid, 18-mile channel that separates Vancouver Island from the state of Washington, challenges distance swimmers with the same fierce fascination that Mount Everest arouses in mountaineers. Since last April, when the Victoria Times offered $1,000 to the first swimmer to cross the strait, four men and three women have tried for the prize, have been defeated by the channel's fierce tides and unrelenting chop. Last week a barrel-shaped Tacoma logger named Bert Thomas, 29, slipped into the water at Port Angeles, Wash., swam through the night, and eleven hours...
...boss commandoman in London could count for instant offensive action exactly six men and a pariah captain left at home in a shipping snafu. Desperate for any justifying achievement, the general ordered out these seven, with his press officer, on a radar-smashing raid by submarine on a Channel islet...
...blurted: "Oh, by gosh, there's my old flag. I'd forgotten I sent that up here." Afterward, the President noted to a couple of cadets that the day was June 6, "a big day in my life. This is Dday, the day we attacked across the Channel, and the day my son was graduated from West Point...
Britain's Hydraulic Research Board (concerned with rivers, harbors and beaches) has been using radioactive tracers to keep track of the mud of the Thames. At present, the Port of London Authority keeps a fleet of dredges at work on the channel at an annual cost of nearly $2,000,000, and it suspects that a lot of the mud they dredge is washed back up the river by the rising tides. If it could be sure, the Authority figured, it might train the tides of the Thames to carry more...