Word: dike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Omaha, the "Big Muddy" (the Missouri) broke through a dike, flooded the municipal airport, stopped many of the city's war plants...
...dear Senator, I'd be very happy if anything I could do could help hold the dike...
Seeds and Dikes. The most important battles of the last month have been in the lake country of central China (see map inset). Along the meandering Yangtze, in the flatlands between Shasi and Yochow, the Japanese threw an eight-pronged drive southward toward huge, dike-bound Tungting Lake. Using perhaps 40,000 troops and plenty of aircraft, the Japanese quickly overran the area between river and lake...
...could become a threat to his armies in the northern Caucasus. Those armies had already been pushed back from Ordzhonikidze and the Grozny oilfields. Now they faced the danger of being cut off. A hole anywhere along the front-from the Caucasus to Leningrad-might open the dike to a Red flood...
...thousand dollars a week looks large in the absolute, but it breaks down to only a quarter per man. From one point of view, the Harvard contribution may be only a drop in the bucket; from another, it is the finger in the dike...