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Main purpose of all four dams is to fend off the sea and its damaging flood tides. But with the salt water blocked off, the estuaries will slowly fill up with fresh water from the rivers. By means of five smaller dams farther inland, the sweet water can be sluiced northward into the Rotterdam Waterway. The waterway provides ocean-going vessels with access to The Netherlands' greatest port, but, in the process, also allows salt water to pass far inland, damaging surrounding farmlands. In effect, the five smaller dams of the Delta Plan will be used to hose...
...grind the horns into a powder that is valued as an alleged aphrodisiac), the one-horned rhino has almost disappeared from Nepal. But Marksman Home was not to be denied. With the help again of Bonham Carter and Adeane, he quickly dispatched the lumbering beast, left its calf to fend for itself in the jungle...
...doctrine that infantrymen should ride straight into combat, is an armored personnel carrier (powered by a British engine, and using Swiss and French components) that can charge through machine-gun fire at 30 miles an hour-and has a metal roof that can be rolled up to fend off atomic fallout...
...past five years, the U.S. has poured $300 million in military and economic aid into primitive, soporific Laos to prop up a succession of anti-Communist governments and to help fend off the skulking guerrillas of the Communist Pathet Lao. About all that remains of that policy and all those millions is anti-Communist General Phoumi Nosavan, who is nursing his pride in southern Laos after taking a shellacking from Kong Le's para troopers...
Fender Sir: Regarding your May 30 picture of Attorney Tom Corcoran, I wish to call attention to the curious caption, "With the brass behind." Did Lawyer Corcoran develop his "brass behind" to fend off anti-Roosevelt Republicans, or what? No doubt, a guard against terrible chewings...