Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week, after new Transport Minister Ernest Marples had hailed M1's first $59 million link as "a powerful weapon," the highway took on the appearance of a battleground. Said Marples, hurrying back to the safety of London: "I was frightened." Though the throughway is soundly engineered-for high speeds, it soon became plain that British drivers...
...southern neighbor, the Sudan. It worked. Last week the two nations finally got together over the division of the waters of the Nile. Nasser had urgent reasons for settling the long dispute: this month Soviet engineers arrive to start work on the first stage of the huge Aswan High Dam project-a scheme designed to expand Egypt's farmland by 30% and multiply its electric power eightfold. Since the Nile travels 1,900 miles through the Sudan before reaching Egypt, the Sudanese were strategically placed to cut off Nasser's water if they chose...
...personally to raise Egypt's compensation offer to $43 million, and the Sudanese were happy to accept after getting a greatly increased share (18.5 billion cubic meters v. 4 billion in the 1929 pact) of the increased water supply to be accumulated when Egypt's Aswan High Dam holds back the vast amount of wasted water that normally goes down into the Mediterranean every year. The successful talks were capped with a tidy $31 million bilateral trade agreement. General Abboud cried, "Thanks be to Allah!", and a grinning Nasser sent his mabruk-"Congratulations!"-to the negotiators...
...nothing to show in new weapons, but including an unprecedented display of small sports cars. In the main speech of the day, Marshal Malinovsky saluted Khrushchev's call for disarmament, added that since it had not yet been accepted, the Soviet armed forces must "maintain a state of high preparedness...
...title role, Tenor Sénéchal, in green tufted wig and high-heeled green shoes, made his way down the aisle to a spattering of applause. (For reasons best known to the French, the foolish old nymph in Platée was written for a tenor.) As Sénéchal launched into the music, he quickly demonstrated why he is one of France's most courted lyric tenors. The smooth, light-textured voice moved with ease from falsetto to full voice, changing shading and color as it kept pace with Tenor...