Word: dammed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...played a great first period," Tomassonisaid. "But in the second, the dam finally broke...
...Crimson dam held and Jonas somehow kept the puck out of the net. Among his many saves was an amazing diving poke check to knock the puck off Clarkson top-scorer Erik Cole's stick as the center attempted to skate around the netminder on a breakaway with under 10 seconds remaining in the period...
...asking me to remove a dam protecting months--even years--of accumulated knowledge. You might be swept away in the undertow if I really let my ideas...
Three million people in this theater. Or so it felt. Easily half of them full of hopes the other half couldn't meet. Enough real stones on the dames to dam a stream, enough fake smiles between them to damn a soul. I wanted to be there about as much as I wanted to be on a Boeing flying into the Eiffel Tower. But Big Ben had made it clear that it would be in the best interest of my natural teeth, and as I needed those pearlies to bite the bullet that I knew was heading...
...transshipments of fruits and vegetables from California to the Midwest. Labor strikes all but destroyed the railroad, and with it Las Vegas, in the 1920s. And then, in the '30s, three things made the place possible. Nevada legalized gambling and quickie divorce, and the New Deal created the Hoover Dam. Now people not only had reasons to go to this unpromising valley, but they could do it without dying of thirst...