Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Puller led the landing at Inchon. Then the Chinese Communists came swarming across the Yalu, and once again, the marines handed the toughest job to Puller. He was put in command of the rear guard that was to cover the marines' retreat in subzero weather from the Chosin reservoir. Ordered to abandon equipment and vehicles, Puller not only kept everything he had but collected many trucks that the Army had abandoned along the way. He loaded the wounded into trucks and Jeeps, strapped frozen bodies on bumpers and hoods, and set out to fight his way to safety through...
...country's compulsory vaccination law, attacked as infringing an Englishman's freedom and as being unnecessary as well, was repealed. But Britain's immunity had depended mainly on the duration of a steamship passage from India (heart of the world's greatest smallpox reservoir), a period longer than the eight-to-14 incubation period of smallpox. Air travel ended that. Then Britain began to encourage immigration from Pakistan. Since then. Britain has had smallpox outbreaks every few years, with a score of deaths...
...ways been a man of positive ideas - but some of the positives have changed. During the 1960 campaign, he effectively used the charge that U.S. prestige had plum meted during Dwight Eisenhower's Ad ministration. In fact, the U.S. had under Ike, and retains under Kennedy, a high reservoir of good will in the free world -as Kennedy saw for himself in his triumphal trips to London, Paris and, more recently Latin America. During the presidential campaign, Kennedy also made much of the "missile gap" between the U.S. and the Soviet Union; within a few weeks after he took...
Beautiful As the Moon. Near the end of the 8th century, the mighty King Jayavarman II founded the first great dynasty of Angkor, and for the next 300 years the Khmers added steadily to their glory. They were prodigious engineers: their moats, canals and reservoirs made the land so fertile that hunger was virtually unknown. One inscription honors a king, not for his conquests but for creating a reservoir "beautiful as the moon, to refresh mankind and to drown the insolence of the other kings...
Each of the paired cannons, he found, has glands that discharge a fluid into a saclike reservoir. Using his best microtechniques, Dr. Schildknecht next analyzed the fluid and found to his amazement that it was about 10% hydroquinone and toluhydroquinone (acrid compounds related to carbolic acid) and 23% hydrogen peroxide. When mixed in a test tube these chemicals reacted spontaneously, giving off copious gas, but something still unknown keeps them from reacting as long as they lie undisturbed in the beetle's ammunition sacs...