Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should be President now. Next day Arnulfo named two of the jury to his cabinet. The Assembly approved his election. Arnulfistas roamed the capital, shouting, singing, smashing up Liberal Party headquarters, beating and knifing Liberals caught in the streets. Three ex-Presidents, including Chanis, hastily checked in at the Canal Zone's Hotel Tivoli, so as to avoid checking in at Panama City's model jail...
...read. Its main thesis was that the CCA, if it was allowed to carry through one of its campaign promises to eliminate a particular grade crossing, would ruin the economy of East Cambridge. He explained the boundaries of East Cambridge, which include the Boston and Albany Railroad, the Drainage canal, another railroad and the Charles River, and showed how the proposed change would destroy the basis for the well-being of its citizens. The audience loudly agreed, and the chairman returned...
...usual, the Americans ran into snags. One student stayed a little toe late in the Colosseum, and found himself locked in for the night--he only got out by dint of a great deal of shouting and pounding at the gate. Another unfortunate fell into the Grand Canal in Venice...
...plot itself is simple, unpretentious, and harmless. Gary Cooper is a Navy flyer who takes part in the first carrier-landing experiments, marries a buddy's widow, and is exiled to a desk in the Canal Zone after pleading aviation's case too violently at a Washington reception. Eventually he gets back on a carrier, and he is on the spot at Pearl Harbor when the shooting starts...
Holland is still picturesque: large hay-boats sail by on the North Sea Canal. When we went under draw bridges the operators lowered small wooden shoes so we could put in a few cents toil. On the other hand, there are many signs of American influence. The proprietor of a very small hotel in Enkhuizen, where few Americans venture, offered me several copies of "Life" while I waited to use his phone. One Sunday we arrived at the tourist-frequented island of Marken to be serenaded by a large excursion steamer blazing the strains of "Cruising Down the River...