Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem of the Indus basin is that its six rivers (the Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Sutlej, Beas) have their upper waters in India, yet flow through Pakistan to empty into the Arabian Sea. For 5,000 years-until partition-the river and canal network was developed as a single unit, creating a valley civilization that stretched back three millenniums before Christ. When the British took over in the 18th century, they added hydraulic engineering to the big and small canals leading off from the fingers of the river system. Some of the canals carry as much water as the Thames...
...subcontinent and concluded that while the two nations quarreled over how much water each got, fully 80% of the Indus flow swept unused to the sea. The question was "pure dynamite," Lilienthal noted, and he urged that an extended canal system be "designed, built and operated as a unit," jointly financed by India, Pakistan and the World Bank...
...imagine a newspaper announcing that the Russians had organized a unit to send a man to hell. The next morning there would be two or three federal agencies around with budget figures, public relations staffs pounding on the walls of Congress saying, 'We can't let 'em beat...
...being called to power, the city was in a different mood. Though 50,000 people gathered in the forum to hear speeches, they were mostly Moslems, whom the French soldiers can mobilize for shows with quiet efficiency. "Shout ' Algerie Franfaise!'" cried an officer from a psychological-warfare unit, but he got only feeble response. Behind him a captain rattled off a steady stream of orders to his men scattered through the audience. "Phantom Two to Phantom: when the speaker shouts 'Algerie,' you shout 'Franfaise!' Shout! Shout! Don't just stand there like sticks...
...Crimson Freshmen probably worked best as a unit in the Boston College game, after they once got started, and in the Holy Cross and Dartmouth contests, both of which they won by a lone run. Against B.C. the Crimson fell behind, 7 to 2, after four innings but rallied to an eventual 16 to 7 romp...