Word: river
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Moses Cleaveland carved out a settlement at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River in 1796, it seemed a promised land. Since then, the Ohio city he laid out has dropped an a from its founder's name and most of his Utopian hopes. Last summer's flaming riots in the city's rat-infested ghetto of Hough proved that Cleveland's Negro neighborhoods are as volatile as Watts or Harlem. Scared citizens have taken to muttering about "Communist influence." Yet the Negro community's real problem is as close as the house next door...
...renewed violence, hundreds of Ibos last week shuttered their shops in Lagos and crowded into Iddo Motor Park, eating palm-oil chop out of metal bowls and awaiting transportation to take them to the East. Thousands of Ibos fled in cars, mammy wagons and buses over the Niger River Bridge into the East, until Gowon ordered this last remaining road link with the East closed. Then they fled across the river in canoes. All along the swampy and grassy border areas, Ibo soldiers dug into foxholes. In the Eastern towns, however, the mood was ebullient, and many businessmen took...
...brink by announcing a plan to divide Nigeria's regions into twelve states, three of them to be carved out of the East. Ojukwu rejected the plan, which gerrymandered most of the Ibos into one landlocked state and separated them from their oil deposits near the Niger River delta...
When they first hear the roar, visitors at Canada's Expo 67 look skyward, expecting to see a low-flying airplane. Instead, shooting spray from all sides, an ungainly contraption speeds by on the nearby St. Lawrence River, carrying 38 passengers on one of the fair's most popular rides. For most visitors, it is their first glimpse of the hovercraft, a British amphibious vehicle that suspends itself on a cushion of air and skims with equal ease over land, ice or water...
...outcome of many conflicting forces. His poetry leaps with disconcerting metamorphoses at every turn of speech. The bullets that "a stringy policeman" counts become rosary beads. The swan-shaped boats on the ornamental ponds of the Boston Public Garden become mythological birds taking his grandfather, Arthur Winslow, beyond Charles River to the Acheron where the wide waters and their voyager...