Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...floor, members whooped it up on a vote to change the name of Boulder Dam back to Hoover Dam, and challenged the Senate to a ball game...
...quote it) "care a damn" if Prince Philip married Princess Elizabeth. This comment is unfair to Billingsgate and to me. In so far as Billingsgate fish-market porters use oaths at all, they use far richer ones than "damn." And I did not, in fact, write "damn" but "dam," thus indicating that I accepted a possibly outmoded (1877) but attractive derivation of the phrase "a tinker's dam"-dam being any barrier, and, in particular, the wall of worthless dough "raised around a place which a plumber desires to flood with a coat of solder" (see Oxford Dictionary...
...major digs are now in progress. In Russian Azerbaijan, close to the Persian border, the Soviet Government is building a hydroelectric dam. Red Army tanks, doubling as bulldozers, uncovered relics which looked so interesting that experts from Baku took over...
...that the U.S. had planted the weight of its power in the path of the Russian advance. What Jimmy said about Trieste and freedom of the Danube had its effect on bigger issues, such as the Russian bid for control of Germany and the Dardanelles. Tinker Jimmy's dam was a jerry-built improvisation-but, for the moment, it held. The U.S. and the world looking back on 1946 might well and gratefully remember Jimmy Byrnes when many a bigger man had been forgotten...
...East, over much of Europe, the whole Far East and parts of Latin America. On its solution depended not only the U.S. world position, but also the lasting peace which the world sought so feverishly in 1946. That job was one for future years; if Tinker Jimmy's dam held long enough, the U.S. would seek in better years bigger men than Jimmy for a bigger task...