Word: dam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revolutionary government is the building of a vast water barrier at Aswan (where the Nile courses through the eastern Sahara), which will bring another 2,000,000 acres of Egypt into production, boost Egypt's power resources 10 billion kilowatt-hours. Estimated cost of Nasser's high dam: $1.5 billion...
...Black: "The Bank is a bank, not a handout business." While the World Bank hesitated, Nasser talked to the Russians, who are supplying him with arms from the Czech armament factories. The Russians offered to lend Egypt $300 million for 30 years at 2% interest, promised to complete the dam in six years instead of the 15 estimated by Western engineers. Nasser confided to U.S. officials that the prospect of having an army of Communist engineers in Egypt pleased him no more than it pleased the West. Still, the threat served him well. Last week in Cairo, Premier Nasser...
Since the characters remain incomprehensible, the incidents in which they are involved and upon which they comment necessarily fail to have much coherence. Briefly, the plot deals with a pair of Brazilian promoters who hatch a scheme to build a dam in the hinterlands of the upper Amazon. In order to show their prospective customers that some work is actually progressing, they send out an American engineer and a young college student to make a preliminary survey. But the plane in which the two are travelling crashes, and the student, after a delirious conversation with a Bahian sea goddess, finally...
...Pogo had seen the Harvard-Williams hockey game at Watson yesterday, in the third period he might have said, "the dam is bust...
...dam busted in the final stanza, as the varsity struck for seven goals to win the game...