Word: dammed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time hydrologists figured this out, it was almost too late. A huge earthen dam had been thrown up along the southern lip of Lake Okeechobee and a great swath of the northern Everglades transformed into prized farmland -- source of most of the U.S.'s cane sugar and 10% of its winter vegetables. To speed development and protect those farmlands from flooding, the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1950s began laying down a system of ditches so vast that astronauts can spot its outlines from space: 1,400 miles of levees, pipes and canals. Today nature's cycle had been...
...want Me to pull the heavens back and show you My anger?! . . . Fear Me, for I have you in My snare . . . I forewarn you, the Lake Waco area of Old Mount Carmel will be terribly shaken. The waters of the lake will be emptied through the broken dam...
...FOUR AMERICAN FIGHTER JETS WERE ON A ROUtine monitoring flight over northern Iraq when ground radar locked on -- a clear sign of trouble. The next message was entirely unambiguous: several rounds of artillery fire from an Iraqi emplacement near the Saddam Dam. Though they were not hit, the American pilots followed standing orders and answered in kind, dropping four cluster bombs on the firing battery. The fighters, three F-16s and one F-4G, then returned to Incirlik air base in Turkey...
They weren't kidding. When Croat forces took the dam on Thursday, after a week-long struggle to regain territories that U.N. troops had failed to clear of Serb forces, the mines had already been detonated. Gushing water threatened to burst the 210-ft.-high (65-m) structure altogether, washing away the homes of 20,000 people downstream. At week's end Croatian officials were working feverishly to shore it up and drain the reservoir behind...
...tottering dam wasn't the only prize. The Croats also got a destroyed bridge, an unusable airport, and a stinging condemnation from the U.N. Nevertheless, the action has given Croats new confidence that they can give the Serbs who pummeled them in 1991 a taste of their own medicine. Though another emergency cease-fire was declared Friday, such sentiments betray the more likely future for Croatia. (See related story on page...