Word: gibraltarism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than 250 acres of the adjacent slopes, complete with trees and scenery, slid greasily into the cut. More slides closed the canal briefly in the year it opened. 1914, and again in 1915 and 1932. But Contractor's Hill, a vast boulder in the ooze, stood like Gibraltar...
...more than 12 ft. a year. After the sea had sunk 50 ft., the water of the Indian Ocean, flowing into it through turbines, would generate as much electricity per day as 200,000 tons of coal. The biggest such project is damming the Mediterranean at the Strait of Gibraltar. In a century its level would fall 330 ft., exposing 90,000 square miles of new land. Inflow from the Atlantic could then generate power, but other effects might be even more interesting. Ley thinks that the cold water that now flows out of the bottom of the Strait...
Molotov ducked and wove, argued that the question of Trieste should be settled first. "We did not come here to discuss Iceland, Morocco, Gibraltar or Trieste, we came to discuss Austria," retorted Dulles. Four fruitless hours later, Bidault said: "We have conceded all we were ever asked to concede, and now we are confronted with heart-rending new proposals...
...began quietly enough when the Falange organized a "spontaneous" demonstration of Madrid students to protest Queen Elizabeth's planned visit to Gibraltar (TIME, Feb.1). Classes were dismissed, flags passed out, and thousands of students set off happily for the British embassy shouting "Death to Queen Elizabeth," and "Britain, get out of here." On their way, they enthusiastically smashed the windows of a British bank...
...Murderers!" Gibraltar and Britain were forgotten. "This morning the professor told us that there would be no class because we must stage a demonstration, and this is what we get," complained one student, nursing his bruises. The Madrid authorities were busy too. They ordered all references to the riot out of newspaper reports, confiscated all pictures of the actual fighting...