Word: damming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fulbright developed a bitter animosity toward Secretary of State John Foster Dulles over Dulles' brinkmanship policies and his cancellation of funds for Egypt's Aswan dam. "He misleads public opinion," Fulbright said, "confuses it, feeds...
...graphite moderator and several hundred pounds of uranium fuel turned to vapor by temperatures above 8,000°F., roughly the same as the surface of the sun. For a fraction of a second before it evaporated, the reactor had generated millions of times as much energy as Hoover Dam...
...largely limited to Russia's immediate neighbors, Turkey and Iran-where he had scant success. But the ubiquitous Khrushchev boldly leapfrogged smack into the area, sending legions of comrade plenipotentiaries armed with aid, or ready to aid with arms. Today, from the great shell of the Aswan High Dam rising from the Egyptian Nile to T-54 tanks rumbling down the boulevards of Baghdad, with swarms of MIG jets on patrol over Syria or strafing Royalist rebels in Yemen, the Soviet presence in the Middle East is evident where it had never been known before...
...EGYPT has received the lion's share ($835 million) of Moscow's Mideast aid largely because of the showcase Aswan Dam, estimated to cost ultimately $1 billion, of which the Soviets are putting up nearly 30%. Aswan is the world's most striking aid project, and the Russians are breaking their backs to do the job right and on time, and are largely succeeding-even at the expense of Siberian dam projects, delayed because Russia's top engineering talent is in Egypt. The Russians are also expanding the Helwan steel complex and the Suez refinery...
...brought back tragic memories of the region's worst previous disaster of that kind, the great flood of December 1955, which cost the lives of 74 people and caused millions of dollars in dam age. In both cases moist tropical air, swept by jet streams from Hawaii, collided over the West Coast with cool air, resulting in avalanches of rain...