Word: linked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nehru (whose name means canal) was opening the first link in the Bhakra-Nangal Canal System, part of an Indian-financed, U.S.-engineered $327 million hydroelectric-irrigation project. Starting in the Himalayan foothills where the Sutlej River pours onto the plains, the project has more than 4,500 miles of canals, will eventually distribute water through an area twice the size of New Jersey, some of it in chronic famine...
...Boeing hotly denied the charges, said that it had started flying the air mail as the only transport company on its route, soon had two competitors. Nonetheless, the Roosevelt Administration abruptly canceled all airmail contracts; four months later Congress passed the Air Mail Act of 1934, forbidding any financial link between an airmail transport line and a manufacturer. In the meantime, the Army Air Corps was ordered to take over the airmail routes...
...successive days, the Red guerrillas in the delta had been strong enough to dig trenches and lay mines across vital Route Coloniale 5-Hanoi's only main road link with its supply port, Haiphong. Last week some 2,000 Communists stormed a French battalion position 36 miles from Hanoi and a Vietnamese outpost less than seven miles from the city...
...moral eloquence. In the film, the Idiot is more a character of insight and candor. His fits have a mystical quality and come on him when he is confronted by someone seeking a solution to life in evil. Amidst the cunning Russian aristocracy he is an unconscious link with the metaphysical, and Gerard Philipe's performance falters only when he lends more melancholy to his lines than poetic innocence. Edwige Feuillere portrays the bold yet sensitive women who first seeks happiness in the coarseness of materialism and then realizes that her only contentment is in the love...
...Castries: "Well understood. We will destroy the guns and radio equipment. The radiotelephone link will be destroyed at 1730 hours. We will fight...