Word: dike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...villages in the green sweep of the Amazon Valley, and 81 more in the Rio Doce Valley far to the south. SESP has built and staffed three fine hospitals and Brazil's best nursing school. It has also built 42 health posts, 14,000 privies, and a dike at Belem that has reclaimed 5,000 acres of land from the sea. Over a two-year period in the Amazon, SESP doctors have made 297,000 medical examinations, 143,000 laboratory examinations, administered 156,000 treatments...
...Dutch journalist, author of Express to the East (TIME, Nov. 18, 1935), who "meddled in underground work," escaped to England and became chief of the Dutch government's broadcasts. After the liberation of Holland he was posted on Walcheren as liaison officer between the Dutch department of dike repairs and the Royal Engineers...
Roll Back the Sea never quite becomes either a dramatic novel or an authoritative document, though it has some of the quality of both. The characterizations of the engineers and contractors and dike workers are not in themselves of sufficient interest to carry the story, and the depersonalized project, impressive as an example of courage and tenacity, turned out in detail to be just hard work. But some of the processes of the water workers-especially the fascine workers, who lace brushwood mattresses to be spread like skin on the ocean floor, to prevent the channels from deepening-make absorbing...
...torn Yellow River valley, "China's Sorrow" threatened to burst the dikes held by both armies. The alarmed Red radio mixed propaganda with its pleading: "It is impossible to complete dike repair work because of constant Nationalist raids . . . We request Nationalist troops and air forces to cease their obstruction...
...Coblenz, German leaders met last week to consider proposals for a Western German state (TIME, June 14). The plan was a keystone in the dike against Communism which the U.S. is trying to build. Allied officials had feared that the Germans would stall or get bogged down in squabbles between the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats. But in Coblenz, too, Western Germany's new unity before the Russian onslaught worked wonders. The tall, slim bottles of Rhine wine and the excellent cuisine generously furnished by the French may have helped. Socialists and Christian Democrats basically agreed...