Word: damming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the world's fledgling nations, the U.S. has had no better friends than Tunisia and its anti-Communist President Habib Bourguiba. But as the U.S. pondered for two years whether to build a sorely needed dam in Tunisia, Tunisians grumbled that neutralist nations were getting plenty of money...
...areas in the world could profit more from water than Tunisia's Sahel region, where some 4,000 farmers scratch out a living. But U.S. Development Loan Fund technicians argued that there was not enough water in the Nebana River to warrant building a dam. "It might be no more than a beautiful white elephant," said an observer...
Mutual Hate. Touring Czechoslovakia, Raúl Castro, brother of Fidel and head of Cuba's armed forces, showed that Communism's affection for Cuba was mutual. On a visit to a dam near Pisek, in western Czechoslovakia, he met a troupe of junketing Red Chinese and North Korean military brass, chatted about the common struggle of the Chinese, Korean and Cuban peoples against "the American aggressors." A few weeks before he set out on his trip, Raúl Castro remarked to intimates in Havana: "My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York...
...Europe. They should, because they started from so much farther back. And they still have a long way to go, though the Reds sometimes sally spectacularly at economic targets of opportunity, e.g., when Russia tries to capture Nasser's economy by offering to build the billion-dollar Aswan Dam for him. Communist-bloc imports and exports still make up less than 10% of world trade...
...Cordelia's body, the grief-stricken Lear cries: "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life and thou no breath at all?" In the extremity of human despair ("Thou'lt come no more") he utters his towering, fivefold "Never, never, never, never, never!" Then the dam of his unbearable anguish breaks with the homely request, "Pray you undo this button." No one but Shakespeare would have dared put those two lines together; no one but Shakespeare could...