Word: snaked
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...port and gleaming white apartment buildings, to the walled Arab city of Fez (pop. 180,000) with its ancient university buildings and its twisting casbah streets too narrow for automobiles, to the sprawling desert town of Marrakech (pop. 215,000) where ragged Berbers bring their camels to market, and snake charmers pitch their brown tents in the city square...
...issue in 1955 had been two alternate ways to dam the turbulent Snake River between Idaho and Oregon: 1) a single, high federal dam costing $400 million, which would generate 800,000 kw., or 2) three low, privately built dams costing $190 million, which would generate 783,000 kw. The FPC licensed the Idaho Power Co.'s low-dam plan on grounds that Congress was reluctant to pay for the high dam. Idaho Power promptly went to work on Brownlee Dam, first of its three low dams, even though public power groups went to court to block it. Gambling...
...inadequate, and few new industries are moving in. As a result of this-and the Democratic victories in the Northwest last year on a public power platform-there is growing pressure for more Government help in developing the vast Columbia River basin. Below Hell's Canyon on the Snake River (chief Columbia tributary), private power had planned two power-only dams at Pleasant Valley and Mountain Sheep. Though approved by former Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, the plans were tentatively disapproved by an FPC study last month that favored a proposed $450 million multipurpose (power, flood control, irrigation) federal...
...reader is firmly held by the question of whether Emmet Booth will finally win. His pursuit of Miranda has the tried and true fascination of that famous cliche from East-of-Suez movies: the beautiful planter's wife playing Chopin while, across the terrace, a large speckled snake glides towards the heroine, ready to strike that lovely neck...
Down, Down. Then, inch by inch, a snake crept into this oily Eden. Surveyors checking their lines during construction of a Navy drydock in 1941, noticed that the ground had sunk a little. Long Beach sages, only slightly alarmed, suggested various causes. It was an earthquake, maybe, or the result of dredging and filling in the harbor area. Few liked to mention the obvious conclusion: that the sinking of Long Beach was caused by extraction of the oil that was making the city rich...