Word: replenishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thirsty nation, the $150 million scheme is a modern equivalent of Christ's miracle of multiplication. Eventually, 85 billion gallons of water a year will flow through Israel's 154-mile network of pipelines, channels, siphons and tunnels. It will replenish the overexploited water table of the citrus-growing central plains, slake the thirst of existing Negev settlements, and provide enough water to sustain some 15,000 new families in the desert. But, momentous as the plan may be to Israel's future, the government last week went to great pains to play it down...
...Anonima had curious origins. Making a trip south in 1873, Buenos Aires Bookkeeper José Menendez was struck by the region's trading possibilities; ships sailing around the Horn stopped to replenish, and Indians were ready to trade pelts, ambergris and even grazing rights for trinkets and tobacco. Menendez set up a trading post at Punta Arenas, a port and penal settlement, and became friendly with a German emigrant, Elias Braun, who farmed near by. In 1895 Braun's eldest son, Mauricio, married Menendez' eldest daughter, Josefina; joined to romance was a practical mixing of land...
...state of the Alliance for Progress. The session was less than two days old when President Kennedy sent an emergency message summoning home U.S. Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon. Before he left, Dillon did put the Latins at ease on one point. The U.S., he said, was prepared to replenish the coffers of the Inter-American Development Bank, would also provide $1 billion in aid next year to match the $1 billion earmarked last year...
Yawkey took over in Boston in 1933, and spared no expense in converting the team into a permanent contender for twenty-five years. As the Williamses, the Peskys, the Parnells and the Doerrs have disappeared, however, Yawkey has been unwilling to replenish the stock of fine players...
...cars, a record for this time of year, the industry began to trim production to fit in more closely with sales. The cutbacks meant that production in the next few months will look poor when compared with 1960, when the industry produced heavily in the first quarter to replenish stocks depleted by the steel strike...