Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impatient Zionists, angered by Bevin's reluctance to open the country to 100,000 more Jews, moved to new violence. Haganah, the underground Zionist army (estimated at 80,000, with additional support from almost all the 550,000 other Jews in Palestine), in past months had blown up coastal radar stations to help illegal immigrants enter the country. Last week Haganah turned to violence not directly supporting immigration: its leaders boasted of destroying eight bridges into Syria and Trans-Jordan...
...farther south the Ancient Americans wandered, the weirder their civilization became. In northern Peru's coastal Viru Valley, diggers were last week excavating the whole series of civilizations that flourished there in the past 2,000 years...
...hard truth was that his agency lacked not only food but talent. UNRRA's Shanghai office (responsible for relief in the mortally stricken Hunan province) had long been under fire for rank inefficiency. Irate businessmen reported that relief supplies were sold in coastal markets instead of being shipped to the interior. While transport difficulties were admittedly enormous, an able administrator could have shipped much of the stores to starving regions accessible by river...
...dire predictions, said: "Boston will be destroyed by the atom bomb. . . .The United Nations has not the power to prevent such until it is made over into a real World Government . . . we know that the American people will never vote to do so until . . . after our large coastal cities have been ruined...
Early in 1942, the Army fitted some of its coastal minefields with underwater microphones. Its purpose: to listen for enemy craft, and blow them sky-high by exploding appropriate mines. For a while the minefields were quiet. Then, with spring, the microphones under an empty sea picked up an "awful racket." To some it sounded like a pneumatic drill, to others like laden freighters coming up the channel...