Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young officer before and since, Hale longed for battle but saw very little action. His regiment was moved from Massachusetts to Manhattan just before the British took Long Island. General Washington, anxious for information about the plans and strength of the enemy, asked General William Heath to establish a "channel of information" behind the British lines. Hale, by now a captain, volunteered for the job. "I am fully sensible of the consequences of discovery and capture in such a situation," he told Captain William Hull, a classmate at Yale and a fellow officer. "I wish to be useful, and every...
...study, he could be the genial host or sympathetic adviser. But in his students and shipmates alike, the quality he liked best was boldness. "And when you go out on the tide," he once advised a fellow yachtsman who was planning a cruise, "don't bother with the channel. Go out between the two little islands. It's narrow, and there's a big rock in the middle, and it will scare hell out of you. But it's beautiful...
...built around the rapids, and a system of power dams will be set up, with their output divided equally between the Province of Ontario and New York state. Elsewhere along the waterway, dredging and modernization of existing locks and canals will be done so that a minimum 27-ft. channel will eventually run all the way from the Atlantic to the western tip of Lake Superior. When it is ready, 75% of the world's ships-all but the biggest ocean liners-can sail to the center of the continent...
...vineyards surrounding his ancient château on the Gironde and mourned the lost days when fine wines were treated with the respect they deserved. Those were the days when the vineyard patrons of the sun-kissed Médoc district personally carried their finest Bordeaux vintages across the Channel and sold them at a Thames quayside to discriminating London vintners. "A good wine," sad Bertrand, "should have personal attention. It is a patron's duty." As spring's tender new shoots peeped from the wintry canes of his vines, Bertrand's plans were made...
Tossed about the Channel like flotsam, Lord Jim's crew found little to occupy themselves but an occasional tune on the guitar by Bertie de Castelbajac and-of course-an occasional bottle of wine...