Word: marshland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Hurricane Audrey roared up toward the Gulf Coast last summer (TIME, July 8), the only physician in the marshland town of Cameron (pop. 3,000), at the southwestern corner of Louisiana, was Cecil William Clark, 33, who ran a community medical center with a twelve-bed hospital. Dr. Clark was confident that his new brick house would ride out the storm, but he was worried about the frame clinic building (with only a brick veneer) and its eight bedfast patients. Leaving their three youngest children at home with a maid, Dr. Clark and his wife Sybil (a nurse-anesthetist...
Majestic Moment. Foremost supporter of Jebel Hillel is Dr. Benjamin Mazar, Archaeologist President of Tel-Aviv's Hebrew University. To get to Jebel Hillel, he points out, the Israelites would have had to cross a marshland sometimes known as the Sea of Reeds, which might well have been that Red Sea whose waters parted to let the Children of Israel through. Dr. Cahane backs up Dr. Mazar's theory: according to legend, he says, Sinai was not a high but a low mountain-evidence of Jehovah's willingness to descend to man's level...
Early this year, land-hungry Israel sent bulldozers and workers to Lake Hula, began draining a marshland of 15,000 acres as a future home for 40,000 Israelis, forcibly evacuated 800 Arab villagers. But the Hula marshes are part of a disputed, 30-mile-long strip on the Syria-Israel border, theoretically under U.N. supervision; the sight of the bulldozers enraged the Syrians. They charged that the Israelis had abused the 1949 armistice agreement, that draining the land would give the Israelis a military advantage. When the Israelis ignored a U.N. order to call off their tractors, the Syrians...
...midmorning two French battalions had disembarked and advanced up each side of a creek, combing the adjoining marshland in extended squad formation. They made no contact with the enemy. An air liaison officer had called out three fighter planes (P-63 Kingcobras) for reconnaissance and strafing. As they circled overhead, sometimes diving earthward, a lieutenant said, "It's always like this-like pushing your finger into butter. The butter spreads and when you pull your finger out you don't have much. Well, anyway, when the Viet Minh come out of hiding they'll find life difficult...