Word: basin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a Scabrous Disease. Inside the headquarters hut, as Li splashed water on his face from a basin, the adjutant said the general had had a good night. He had been able to sleep from midnight until 3 in the morning. Over breakfast the general explained disconsolately that he had not been able to take his objective. Although a thousand shells had been poured into the village, the Communists had held their line and mustered enough strength to send a counterattack within a mile of the general's headquarters. "We will take it today," he said with determination...
Bill Leavitt, cox on last year's combination crews, got a frosty heave-ho off the Newell float yesterday after his eight defeated four other Varsity shells over a one-mile course in the river basin. The winning time...
...Amazon basin there are three types of rivers-yellow, white and black. Only the yellow rivers (actually a tawny brown) have fertile valleys. The yellow rivers, of which the Amazon proper is the best example, carry silt, and when they overflow, leave rich deposits on the land. The black rivers are stagnant and so acid that even fish cannot live in them. The white rivers have ceased to serve as anything but drainage canals. Tropic downpours have long since washed away all fertility from their valleys...
Last week pursuing Nationalists found Chen Yi waiting for them on a battlefield of his own choosing. Chen's 100,000 Red troops were ranged along a 35-mile stretch of Honan basin land below the Lunghai railroad. The core of Chen's force was made up of veterans of his slashing campaigns in Shantung province. These tough regulars were fleshed out with elements from the army of one-eyed Communist General Liu Po-cheng, and local Red guerrilla bands...
Cracking down with the state's anti-pollution laws, Duff has already cut the dumping of mine waste by 80% in the Schuylkill River basin. The task of dredging out millions of tons of accumulated silt and culm is ready to begin. Similar projects are under way along the Lehigh, the Lackawanna and Susquehanna Rivers...