Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...journey began in the hot desert country around Hyderabad. Last week it ended, 1,500 miles distant in the cold, bleak hills near the Khyber Pass. Traveling in a sleek, air-conditioned train named Pak Jamhuriat (Pakistan Democracy), Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan, 52, barnstormed the land, urging citizens to go to the polls in support of his new conception called "basic democracies...
Reaction to this latest Channel venture was mixed. "A wildcat scheme," cried Viscount Montgomery. Ignoring supersonic bombers and ICBMs, Britain's angry old field marshal added darkly that the tunnel would end "the inviolability of our island against the footsteps of an invader." To placate such critics, tunnel planners have included a dip at either end which could be flooded quickly to thwart invaders, pumped out later. The only cogent argument against construction of a tunnel, as the Times once commented, is that it would end the debate as to whether it ever was a good plan, "thus depriving...