Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ancient Punjab Capital, Lahore, went to Pakistan. The Indian province decided to build an entirely new city for its capital. Such planned capitals are rare. Peter the Great built St. Petersburg on piles in uninhabited marshes; Major Pierre Charles l'Enfant designed Washington for the Potomac swamps, and a U.S. architect, Walter Burley Griffin, drew up the plans for Australia's Canberra, which replaced a sheep station in a wide, shallow river valley...
...special train clacked alongside the muddy, swollen Potomac, through the apple-green Appalachians and across the Midwestern flatlands into the West. At the end was a bulletproof special car, the Ferdinand Magellan, and inside it was pessimism-proof Harry Truman, bound for the hunt...
...area along the Potomac River flat, site of the State Department building, the Pan-American Union, many U.S. Government office buildings...
...probed deeper. In secret session, Chambers told them details of some of the Hisses' Washington apartments, of the Hisses' habits and hobbies. Alger Hiss was an amateur ornithologist, Chambers said, and once had told Chambers how he had seen a prothonotary warbler on the banks of the Potomac. In another session with Hiss the com mittee again pressed him. Did he still insist that he did not know Chambers? Would he recognize a man who once spent a week in his house? Hiss at length said that he might have known Chambers after all, but as a free...