Word: flood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the new international bridge, the muddy Rio Uruguay raced in flood. But on the bridge Argentine troopers and Brazilian marines stood at immaculate attention. A strapping figure in the uniform of an Argentine general, and a tired little man in a dark civilian suit advanced toward each other. At midstream the two men snipped a ceremonial tape, then embraced. Thus, last week, after many postponements, Argentina's President Juan Perón and Brazil's President Caspar Eurico Dutra inaugurated the Augustin Justo bridge that links their countries...
...contrast to the flood of hate-Russia propaganda that is fed to us by the daily press, the continual description of the Russians as oppressed, discouraged and persecuted slaves, such an article as Samuel Welles's excellent report in your issue of April 28 is like a ray of sunshine...
...office next month. One of the most pressing, and at the same time most difficult to solve, is that of maintaining the mature calibre of student that the veteran influx has brought to the Yard. Only 150 veterans are entering in the Summer and Fall terms and the vast flood of applicants that engulfed University Hall a year ago will soon dwindle to the lesser flow of former years in the absence of GI subsidies and with the pressure of a slumping national economy. Mr. Bender fears that this may thwart the aim of selecting students on the basis...
...read nor write. They speak a Creole dialect of French, live in thatched huts with dirt floors, suffer from worms, decaying teeth, malaria and tuberculosis. A UNESCO expert, armed with films, books, posters and phonograph records, will work with a Haitian Government team to teach the fundamentals of hygiene, flood control, modern agriculture, the three Rs. UNESCO will pass on what it learns to teams in Asia, Africa, South America...
...usual, readers must grant Author White (The Sword in the Stone, Mistress Mas ham's Repose) a basic, whimsical conceit. This time the Archangel Michael slithers down the chimney of an Irish farm where Mr. White is boarding, warns of an imminent flood and appoints the author as a latter-day Noah. The idea is pretty thin to start with, and it is not even corn-fed from there on. The building of the Ark, for instance, is a nail-by-nail account that only a carpenter might care to follow. Author White, who wrote the book in County...