Word: rivulet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flatlands of China's Honan Province, near Chengchow, a tiny rivulet of muddy water oozed into a dried-up channel and meandered sluggishly toward Pohai Gulf, some 400 miles to the northeast. The rivulet, a man-made branch of the Yellow River, was the first fruit of the giant flood-control effort to thrust "China's Sorrow" back into its pre-1938 bed. In Shanghai, UNRRA Engineer Oliver J. Todd, director of the project (TIME, June 17), contemplated news of the trickle with mixed emotions. "Todd Almighty" knew that this was no dream come true; in fact...
When I die I'll call together all the devils and wrestle them in a three-inch rivulet...
...Christmas Day, 1943, Magnitogorsk had a celebration. The first red rivulet of molten iron flowed from the sixth blast furnace to be erected in the city, the second to be built there since the war began...