Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first protocol was amended to give Russia specifically "the area south of Baku and Batum in the direction of the Persian Gulf...
...From Gulf to Gulf. This year three huge irrigation plants and half a dozen smaller projects have been completed. The "Lázaro Cárdenas," fourth largest earthen dam in the world, held back the waters of the Nazas River ia September 1944, during the worst flood in 53 years, protected the cities of Torreón, Lerdo and Gómes Palacio in the plains of northern Mexico. This more than compensated for the $16 million the dam has cost to date. On the 280,000 acres it irrigates live 35,000 peasant families...
...down to nearly a half century's hiding in Hulutao, a bleak blister on Manchuria's coast. But in Japan his fame grew with the years, reached fruition when death-seeking members of the Special Attack Corps began hurling then-frail planes into U.S. warships at Lingayen Gulf and Okinawa...
...chorus after chorus of crying, impassioned music. He hits the notes on the edge, punching them out hoarsely and exuberantly, soaring up and down in a rapid shuffle rhythm; but the old majestic grandeur, characteristic of those of his profession who were trained where the Mississippi spills into the Gulf, is never lost. He can provide piquant spicing for an ensemble chorus, but when he takes off on his own over the rhythm, the suddent emotional pickup is enough to send chills down susceptible spines...
Navy Day Celebration (Sun. 12:30 p.m., ABC). Tin Can, a dramatization of the Battle of Leyte Gulf; at 7:30 p.m., Mutual airs an address by Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey...