Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old French boy named Jean-Marie LePargneur. He, like his fellow tourists, had spent a year at a U.S. school on an American Field Service scholarship. But he thought he ought to see more of the U.S. than just the school he went to in Beaver Dam, Wis. So did the A.F.S., but it didn't know where the money would come from. Jean-Marie replied, "I feel that anything is possible in the United States." Local civic groups put the students up, and Greyhound lent a bus; the entire cross-country trip for 29 students set A.F.S...
...time has come, Canada warned the democracies of the west last week, to band together to dam the flood of Communism. In the most important statement on Canada's foreign policy since the war, External Affairs Secretary Louis St. Laurent told the House of Commons...
This odd truce is upset by the parachute arrival of Adrian Bullivant, a British officer and even more of a weakling than most weak young men in modern British novels. He has come to instruct the 23rd Corps to blow up a dam in behalf of the Allied armies, but once his foggy mind grasps the impossibility of such a project he settles down to enjoy life...
West Virginia's New River rose 30 feet above its normal level, swept scores of houses and other buildings into the Bluestone Dam basin. At Clarksburg, W.Va., the West Fork River rose to its highest stage since 1888. A 10-ft. levee collapsed at Crowder, Miss. The raging Duck River split the town of Columbia, Tenn. in half; Columbians were evacuated from their homes by the Red Cross and the National Guard...
Whitney (hand outstretched): "It's over the dam, Mr. President...