Word: landed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the season's main flood waters hit the dam-and we have got it," said a dispirited game warden last week as he stood on the banks of Rhodesia's man-made Kariba lake. Before his weary, red-rimmed eyes lay a vast tract of drowning land. Two hundred yards away a dozen monkeys clung to the rocky crown of a tiny island that was being swallowed up in the dappled waters. The monkeys' ribs showed through their shrunken skin, their liquid, pleading eyes turned desperately this way and that...
Over the beauty of my land...
...government could spare to open up the virgin coastal plain, where rich topsoil lay three feet thick. In ten years Ecuador built 1,600 miles of road. United Fruit opened a 7,000-acre plantation. Poor settlers from the highlands joined in and got 124 acres of government land free. Now Ecuador is the world's biggest banana exporter, with shipments of $70 million last year...
Conditioning. Kiphuth's secret is to train his swimmers on dry land. In his early years as coach, he traveled to Sweden and Japan to study bodybuilding methods, incorporated what he observed and what he devised himself into a rigorous physical education program that all Yale swimmers must undergo before they take to the water for serious workouts. Under Kiphuth's direction, they work for weeks on weights and pulleys in Yale's immense Payne Whitney Gymnasium ("the Temple of Sweat...
...Unity. The executive committee proposed that "fruitful first steps" should be "in actual cooperation among churches in working for a responsible society . . . and efforts to secure religious liberty for all people in every land." Examples: unity against anti-Christian forces, collaboration in aiding refugees and underdeveloped countries-practical work that might thrive despite deep dogmatic differences...