Word: river
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Karen children and spoke their language during my childhood in Burma. We found the Karens cooperative, very eager to learn and loyal. Their desire to improve themselves and their successes aroused the jealousies of the Burmese who were content to live off the lush plains of the Irrawaddy River delta. EDWARD F. MARSHALL Cohasset, Mass...
ELIZABETH DEAN Bass River, Mass...
...army that totals about 50,000 men, Biafra nonetheless seems ready to fight for the last inches of its turf. Pushed out of the Midwestern state, which they had seized in a daring raid, Ojukwu's men have hurled back boatloads of troops trying to cross the Niger River after them. One big government ferry got stuck on a sandbar in midpassage; while searchlights lit it up, Biafran guns splintered it, and hundreds of men drowned. Elsewhere, the war has become a kind of ballet, with bands of roving soldiers often straying back and forth across each other...
...across the river is crying, or talking of a building year. The Terriers so far have beaten Memorial University of Newfoundland, 8-2; New Brunswick, 13-3; Yale, 9-1; and New Hampshire...
Early in 1947, a young Bedouin boy was herding sheep or smuggling goods across the Jordan River, both of which his ancestors had probably done for thousands of years...