Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insatiable Colette lived day in, day out with this appetite. The mere sight of a Camembert cheese roused desire to "feel the crust, measure the elasticity of the texture." Sapphires, spring's first lilies of the valley, the smell of humus, the sight of a dead tree branch "polished, glazed, oiled by generations of reptiles"-all these roused her. "She knew a recipe for everything, whether it was for furniture-polish, vinegar, orange-wine, quince-water, for cooking truffles or preserving linen . . ." It is no surprise to hear that "Balzac and Proust were the authors whom she reread untiringly...
...pilot, could survey the earth beneath him with something of detached contempt. Traveling at better than 500 m.p.h., he seemed almost motionless in space. Just behind him, in twinkling miniature, lay the sweep of San Francisco Bay; ahead, curving gently with the earth, was the hot yellow of Death Valley and the desert wastes beyond. And below, like the riffles in a child's papier-mache relief map, were the grey granite thrusts and the white snow splotches of California's rugged Sierra Nevada range. In this country, pioneers had baked-or frozen-as they struggled westward...
...Valley. But Harry Chandler had something more explosive than flickers on his mind. The winding Los Angeles River, which flowed through the area, carried most of its water underground; a growing city would need more water. Rounding up powerful business friends-Union Pacific Railroad's E. H. Harriman, Promoter Moses Sherman, Banker Joseph Sartori and Collis Huntington's nephew Henry-Chandler set out to locate a new source. He found it: 240 miles to the northeast lay a lush valley of orchards and farms fed by the Owens River. Chandler and his friends quietly bought up the water...
Then the group tipped its plan to the public: for $22.5 million, the city could build a 233-mile aqueduct from Owens Valley. The voters overwhelmingly approved a bond issue to pay for it. In 1913 the aqueduct was completed, spilled its water into the "vast stubble field" of the San Fernando Valley*-and to ensure the promise that the water would reach Los Angeles, the little city annexed the valley. In the years that followed, the Owens Valley dried out, San Fernando bloomed, and Los Angeles, which still gets 69% of its water from the aqueduct, crept beyond...
Watershed. In Hartford, Conn., weathermen of the Connecticut Valley branch of the American Meteorological Society, rained out in 1955, announced that they had reserved for their annual picnic an "area with indoor facilities...