Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airfield on the rough terrain would be a major engineering job, but there are sheltered coves for seaplanes, good anchorages for ships. The workers and sailors will have to import water; on Albermarle, which has almost no fresh water, the ranchers and cattle hands drink coconut juices, wash in salt water...
...even as the city was modernized, Stalingrad's color and flavor still derived from the life teeming on the many-storied landing stages of the broad, slumberous Volga. A small part of the city lies on the river's east bank, with salt marshes and treeless wastes stretching on into Asia...
...Caspian, into which the Volga empties, is a salt sea 83 ft. below sea level...
...worst comes to the worst, it can shoot anybody down." Still a scrapper, Churchill the Prime Minister turned on the rich flow of rhetoric which stiffened British spines in the darkest hours of World War II. This time his finely chiseled words, falling flat and harsh, rubbed salt into the sores of India. "Mischievous half-truths," screamed the Indian press...
Manpower. A subcontinent as big as the area from Hudson's Bay to Key West and from New York to Salt Lake City, India crawls with 389,000,000 people, nearly three times the population of the U.S. Its population is increasing at the rate of 5,000,000 a year...