Word: dammed
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...plans to build a reservoir on the land and fill it with water from the Hudson River. It power failures and heavy electrical usage cause power shortages. Con Ed will let the water run back into the Hudson through a dam to generate hydroelectric power from the flow...
...committee report cites the danger of possible seepage of reservoir water through the dam. The seepage could weaken the dam enough so that it would burst. the report said. releasing 20 million tons of water directly above nearby Cornwall...
...constantly on the go. One project is a recreational town of 48,000 units along the dune-dotted Aquitaine coast in southwestern France. Another is the Koerfer House in Switzerland that just won a top architectural award. Back in the U.S. is a new hydropower plant at Grand Coulee Dam that he describes as "Egyptian in its dimensions and cathedral in its feeling of emptiness, immensity and silence...
...also directed the rescue of over 9000 stray animals threatened by a new hydroelectric dam on the East River. Also author of Time is Short and The Water Rises...
...frequency of Mr. Farber's allusions to "Insurgency" snacks of the "think tank Jargon" which characterized the statements of American social scientists and policy makers charged with legitimizing the war in Indochina. For example, he uses much phrases as the "black insurgent threat," "anti Portuguese Insurgents," "Insurgent triumphs," "Insurgent dam busters," "Crush the insurgents...