Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last word, will be to retreat all along the western front in a sweeping are, giving up northern Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg in that order. This retreat will leave Denmark in a precarious position, and will give the Russians access to the narrow straights of the English Channel...
...speed of nine miles an hour, the flood crest smashed at banks and levees, swallowed up great stretches of fertile farmland and laid siege to half-empty towns and cities, holding out behind their sandbag barricades (see NEWS IN PICTURES). The critical point last week came at the narrow channel between Omaha and Council Bluffs, where a levee and flood wall system was designed to keep the river in a course only 1,200 feet wide...
...lonely trading post run by pompous Almayer (Robert Morley) and his wife (Wendy Hiller). Willems falls in love-temporarily but passionately-with Aissa, a sinuous, savage native beauty (played by Kerima, a 22-year-old Arab girl) for whom he sells out the secret of the post's channel shipping route. Also on hand: Captain Tom Lingard (Ralph Richardson), man of the sea and lover of justice, who punishes Willems for his treachery by exiling him upriver with the merciless native girl he no longer loves...
...Wish Me Joy." From then on, they saw each other less often. But their cautiously intimate letters, sometimes carried by the ever-faithful Trumbull, crossed the Channel scores of times. In one of them, Maria finally asked for a picture-a miniature "coppy" that Trumbull was to make of a portrait he had don6 in Paris. At the time, Maria was miffed at Jefferson for not having answered her last letter. "She is angry," Trumbull jokingly told Jefferson, "yet she teases me every day for a copy of your little portrait-that she may scold it, no doubt...
...into the dance of death; in The Respectable Burgher, an English gentleman who has been reading "higher criticism" of the Bible decides to turn to "that moderate man Voltaire"; in A Tramp-woman's Tragedy, the heroine teases her "fancy-man" into committing a pointless murder; and in Channel Firing, the dead, stirred by great noises, rise from their graves only to be reassured by. God: "It's gunnery practise out at sea / Just as before you went below; / The world is as it used...