Word: niles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EGYPT, by an agreement with Britain which has outlasted riots and mutual insults, controls the flow of the Nile. She thus manages to support 17 million fellahin on a thin green strip of land along its banks. The Nile's surplus is dammed up at Aswan during the wet season, released during the dry. Now in process: a Nile "century" scheme to even out wet and dry decades and provide an ever-normal flow for irrigation by making Lake Victoria into the world's largest storage...
Sorrow & Pleasure. A few moments later, Nelli began her toughest assignment, Aïda's great aria from the Nile Scene. Toscanini demanded that she sing a long, difficult phrase in one breath. "I know," he had said earlier, "there is not a soprano today who does it. But you do it." He also insisted on his own interpretation of anguish in the phrase O patria mia, o patria mia. He sang it through himself, beating his chest. Nelli tried it. No, no, said the maestro, and launched into the phrase again, leaning toward her, hugging his own shoulders...
...false beards as there is in the studios just now. Prop men from Paramount are scouring Egypt for frogs to make a likely plague (Exodus 8:31, for non-biting insects to substitute for lice (Exodus 8:16), and they are making the necessary preparations to turn the Nile to blood (Exodus 7:19)-all for The Ten Commandments. In Hollywood Columbia executives are busy scanning six weeks' worth of background shots (using 17,500 Egyptian extras) for Joseph and His Brethren, and laying plans to follow it up with Mary Magdalene next year. And the California organizations...
...What fun," observed Winston Churchill in 1907, envisioning the future dam, "to make the immemorial Nile begin its journey by diving through a turbine...
...Second Nile. Ley does not bother with dams across ordinary rivers; he picks the Congo, .which drains much of Africa's rain forest through a steep-sided valley near its mouth. A dam at this point, says Ley, would form a lake big enough to cover California, Nevada and Oregon. The water would flow northward to fill an even bigger lake (the Chad Sea) in the Sahara, and eventually drain into the Mediterranean. The lakes would presumably improve the climate of much of Africa, and boats would reach the continent's heart through the "second Nile...