Word: dammed
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Chris and his mother barely escaped with their lives last February when a badly constructed coal-slag dam gave way and unleashed 130 million gallons of seething water on the mining communities of Buffalo Creek, W. Va., killing 125 and leaving 4,000 homeless (TIME, March 13). Chris was carried to high ground by his father, but his two sisters were swept from their mother's arms and drowned. Last week, seven months after the disaster, much of the physical havoc caused by the flood had been repaired, but the psychological damage to hundreds of families like the Hopsons...
...toasted marshmallows have gone over the dam since the Boy Scouts of America was founded in 1910. Like many other institutions that have served the nation with pride and distinction during a simpler era, the Boy Scouts have an image problem. By some granny knot of fate, the inner city has come to challenge the resourcefulness of democratic frontier ideals. But the phrase "Boy Scout" still evokes vignettes of white suburban striplings rubbing sticks together in church basements...
...leave their safe city homes for a weekend of canoeing down a wild Georgia river, Lewis says: "They're raping the whole goddamned landscape." It seems that the unspoiled countryside gliding past their car windows will soon be gone, after engineers dam the river and change it into a broad, still lake. Haphazard at first, the expedition soon becomes a horror. It is nature in all its untamable force that finally rapes...
...four, wants to bring the murdered mountaineer downriver to the police. He believes that they will all be pardoned for justifiable homicide. The others doubt it, finally overrule him, and bury the body in the woods, which along with the rest of the area will be flooded for the dam project...
...States have passed thru a Dam'd supercilious era Down, Derry-down/ Oh let an old man rest...