Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day, just a week after Hurricane Alice blew in from the Gulf, the worst flood in Rio Grande history (153 dead and missing) ended abruptly at the new concrete face of Falcon Dam, 75 miles below Laredo. This week, as the river sank to only 9 ft. at Laredo, flood waters lapped up behind Falcon Dam and assured farmers downstream of irrigation in the searing months ahead. Hurricane Alice, for all her evil, had at last blown some good...
YOUR COVER JINX HAS ALWAYS BEEN EFFECTIVE BUT NEVER QUITE SO PROMPT AS IN THE CASE OF NATIVE DANCER. BY THE WAY, IN DANCER'S PEDIGREE YOU HAVE HIS PATERNAL GRAND DAM WRONG; THE DAM OF UNBREAKABLE IS IMPORTED BLUE GLASS, NOT BLUE
...getting too easy. With balanced, steel-shafted clubs and hopped-up golf balls, good players were going out on established courses and easily smacking their tee shots past once-dangerous hazards. Duffers and mediocre golfers were running into all the trouble. Architect Jones has been forced to drain swampland, dam creeks and rearrange sand dunes in his continuing effort to lay out holes with both character (i.e., a combination of problems and pleasure) and beauty. He always tries for the balance that will satisfy the average amateur and try the skill of the professional...
...first-class fighting man. In 1943, after completing a tour of operations in Halifax bombers, he became the youngest group captain (equals U.S. colonel) in the R.A.F. He had himself demoted to wing commander so that he could take over command of the famed 617 Squadron, nicknamed "The Dam-Busters." where he developed a new low-level technique of marking targets. After more than 100 missions, he won Britain's highest decoration, the Victoria Cross...
...foundation in the records. For a time, however, the grey line almost died out of racing. The line was resuscitated by a French grey named Le Sancy foaled in 1884. Le Sancy's blood passed down to a powerful procreator named Roi Herode. The Dancer's grey dam, Geisha, is a great-great granddaughter of Roi Herode...