Word: debouchement
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...forces that affect cities, the interstate highway program, 90% financed by federal funds, has been the least controlled. And yet today, those wide concrete corridors play as vital a role in shaping cities as once was played by rivers. Undirected, highways smash and crash through whole neighborhoods, debouch a torrent of autos into already traffic-choked streets. Owings' team, which includes engineers, traffic and transit consultants as well as architects, intends to wield its power to direct Interstate 95's path through Baltimore as delicately as a surgeon's scalpel, avoiding historic areas, living organic communities and parks, while improving...
...landings on Leyte, the Japanese had prepared a plan known as SHO-1, aimed at bringing "general decisive battle." SHO1 called for a pincers movement against the U.S. landing forces in Leyte Gulf. The strongest Japanese force, under Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita, was to steam through the Sibuyan Sea, debouch through San Bernardino Strait (see maps) and head south to Leyte Gulf. Two smaller forces, operating independently under Vice Admirals Shoï Nishimura and Kiyohide Shima, were to come through Surigao Strait, move north and close the pincers with Kurita. Meanwhile, a fleet under canny old Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa...
...conventioners will, they sat and chatted about last night's parties and this morning's hangovers. Then suddenly they fell quiet. From the south end of the hall, the legal pageant of Britain began to emerge and debouch onto the stone steps that formed a stage-judges of the High Court of Justice in ermine-trimmed scarlet; Lords of Court of Appeal in black knee breeches and gold-braided gowns; Lord Goddard, 80 years old, Lord Chief Justice, wearing an extra S-shaped band of gold braid. Trainbearers, bearers of the standard and the mace, each entered...
...coast artillery claimed destruction of two battleships, one cruiser, five destroyers, many a seaplane, and the repulse of a night landing party. General Hero, thick-shouldered, grey-haired, blue-eyed, explained: "The problem of guardsmen at Hancock was to keep the harbor mouth open permitting the Blue ships to debouch therefrom and go to the rescue of endangered Blue vessels off Delaware Bay. This they did successfully...
SAILING ACROSS EUROPE-Negley Farson-Century ($3.50). Everyone knows that Europe's air system now reaches every important city and many an unimportant. But who knew that for centuries it has been possible to travel inland by boat from Rotterdam, climb the Rhine, get into the Danube and debouch upon the Black Sea? The key link is the Ludwig Canal, begun by Charlemagne 1,200 years ago. With 101 locks in 107 miles it climbs out of Bavaria through the clouds of the Frankischer Jura mountains and deposits you in Austria. . The German Consulate at London had never heard...