Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before the Six-Day War of 1967 shut down the Suez Canal, Egyptians and oil men-to say nothing of their customers in the West-dreamed of a pipeline linking the Red and Mediterranean seas. Such a link (see map following page) would make unnecessary the costly circumnavigation of Africa by the giant tankers (too fat to fit the canal) that now deliver Arab oil to European refineries. It would also produce revenues that would go a long way toward filling the big hole left in the Egyptian treasury by the closing of the canal. For all its promise...
None of the 100 bus routes in the Department of street Railways (DSR) system runs in a straight line. It is said by some that a cartographer would need about an hour to map a bus route to the city from a starting point ten miles away. So if you live ten miles away from your job, you either take five buses to work...
...door to the heavily fortified command bunker is the town hall. A small group of tough Cambodian special-forces troops walked in, exuberantly displaying a .50-cal. machine gun recovered from an enemy position that they had just destroyed. General Sar Hor pulled a wad of riels from his map case and handed the reward to Major Kim Phong, the group's commander. "Special forces, can do!" he shouted. Kim Phong, a tall, strapping Khmer with a stubbly beard, who looks a bit like an Asian Lee Marvin, has been a soldier for 20 years, first for the French...
...looked, everything I saw, became something to be made, and it had to be made exactly as it was, with nothing added. I could take from everything; it all belonged to me: a glass roof of a factory with its broken and patched panes, lines of a road map, the shape of a scarf on a woman's head, a fragment of Le Corbusier's Swiss pavilion, a corner of a Braque painting, paper fragments in the street...
...hardly suspected that his discovery would help break the mystery of ancient hieroglyphs. Although Harvard's esoteric acronyms such as WOE and GSTFU are not impossible to comprehend, a rundown of the University's secret code, a la the Rosetta Stone, can be as useful to newcomers as a map Cambridge...