Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be an act of disloyalty to Turkey, a trusted ally who had stood by Britain throughout the Suez crisis and who regarded Makarios' goal of enosis (union of Cyprus with Greece) as a direct threat to its security. Cyprus, which lies only 40 miles off the Turkish coast, is the only major island on the sea approaches to Turkey that is not already in Greek hands...
...sunny valley of the Fuerte River, along Mexico's Gulf of California coast, not enough rain has fallen in the past six years to settle the dust. Yet last week 123,550 acres of the valley's virgin soil lay plowed and planted for the first time in history. Crisscrossing the land was a symmetrical pattern of brand-new concrete canals and irrigation ditches filled with fresh water. Higher up, in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains that parallel the coast, lay the source of the life-giving moisture: the new, stone-faced $16 million Miguel...
Only ten years ago the entire gulf coast was a useless, dusty plain. Only a few farmers eked out a skimpy existence along the riverbanks. In 1947 the government of President Miguel Alemán began construction of the $12 million Alvaro Obregón Dam on the Yaqui River, in Sonora state. Finished in 1952, it soaked more than 543,000 acres in the valley below, created a treasure house of cotton, wheat and California-sized vegetables. In 1955 the $8,000,000 Mocuzari Dam was completed near Alamos, also in Sonora state. With its irrigation system finished...
...North of the area fed by the Alvaro Obregón Dam stretches 300 miles of riverless desert. Beneath the parched earth lies a supply of fresh underground water. Engineers are already at work, drilling experimental wells, and surveying. It will not be long, they say, before the whole coast line from the U.S. border to Culiacán. in Sinaloa state, will be one big garden. The project can hardly help paying. Last year the crops grown in the Yaqui valley were worth more than the construction cost of the dam and irrigation system...
...leave the convent and return to her husband or go to jail. For weeks Cornelia kept street clothes in her cell, ready to leave the country if Pierce or the authorities should try to seize her. Wild rumors had it that Pierce was waiting in a yacht off the coast, ready to carry her off. Ready for Glory. Cornelia eventually won her appeal to the Privy Council, but not before Connelly v. Connelly became the focus of a violent newspaper battle between British Protestants and Catholics, with U.S. papers echoing both sides. Pierce again became an Episcopal rector (after...