Word: channelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardly a triumph of personal leadership on either side. Macmillan had been pushed by a Britain ready to take the cross-Channel plunge long before its shivering Prime Minister even stuck a toe in the water...
...States of Europe has captivated statesmen from Charlemagne to Churchill. But for Britain, still dreaming of the days when it was the greatest power on earth, togetherness with the Continent has always seemed a kind of national capitulation, and it has remained proudly aloof across the 20 miles of Channel water separating it from Europe. The more Britain's relative power in world affairs ebbed, the more Britain seemed afraid that her own prideful identity might be lost in a vast new European nation. Stretching from the Atlantic to the Iron Curtain, from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean...
...Gort's army was in full retreat from Hitler's Panzers toward the Channel ports when Anthony Eden, Winston Churchill's Secretary of State for War, gave the only command possible -the evacuation of the army from Dunkirk, the last northern French port left in Allied hands. Ironically, it was called Operation Dynamo. At first, the job seemed impossible, and officers gloomily reckoned on saving no more than 45,000 men. German bombers had ruined Dun kirk's seven modern dock basins. Because the beaches were shallow, small craft were needed, and the navy...
...named Pelham Grenville. Said he: "I remember protesting vigorously, but to no avail." His longest bout with misfortune came in 1940 when Plum, as he has been called since schooldays, was arrested by the Nazi army in his home at Le Touquet on the French side of the English Channel. The Nazis whisked him from jail to jail for 49 weeks, then released...
...Lawrence Seaway is an engineering masterpiece designed to produce economic miracles. It hasn't quite. In the confident hope that a deepwater channel would churn up an international trading boom in the North American heartland, Canada and the U.S. sank $442 million into the Seaway. Last week, as the Great Lakes shipping season approached its crest (unaffected by the coastal shipping strike), the two-year-old Seaway had lost some of its glamour. Says Milwaukee Port Director Harry C. Brockel: "It hasn't been as spectacular as expected. But then, a lot of people were looking for wonders...