Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon, Ford had been forced, into only three minor revisions in his testimony: (1) the blood clot did not dam the whole vein, but just 95 percent; (2) a patient lying on her back needs somewhat less air to cause death; and (3) although the clot meant a slow strangulation of the blood stream, it didn't disprove sudden death...
...Mountains and into the Mojave Desert. They plunged into the 90° heat of Death Valley (some drivers sweltered with the windows up lest they cut down their streamlining), spiraled up again into Las Vegas for the night. Next day, a seven-hour drive sent them rolling across Hoover Dam, and then steadily uphill into below-freezing temperatures and snow at the finish line near the Grand Canyon...
...argue with a river, said the Secretary of State: it is going to flow. You can dam it or damn it, put it to useful purposes or divert it, but you can't argue with it. The U.S., Dean Acheson said, was through trying to argue with the torrent of Communism. "Therefore," he said, "we go to work ... to change those situations of weakness so that they won't create opportunities for fishing and opportunities for. trouble . . . We are trying to extend the area of possible agreement with the Soviet Union by creating situations so strong that they...
...years ago, Pick and Sloan were pretty incompatible. Sloan would put up a dam, and Pick would reply with another which submerged it. After a few years of this, the two men smelled a good thing, joined forces and got Congress to appropriate them funds which have so far totalled more than a billion dollars. At the present time, Pick and Sloan are putting up levees and dams, and digging ditches along more than 2000 miles of their river...