Word: dikes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles along the Columbia's lower reaches, families fled their homes. Under the water's relentless weight, dikes became soggy, began to leak in small treacherous rivulets. Downstream from Portland, the dike protecting Woodland (Wash.) broke. Four days later the river cracked the Johns Dike at Clatskenie. At Portland, the backed-up waters of the Willamette River topped the retaining walls, flooded the railroad station and the airport. Trucks and bulldozers worked night & day; troops and volunteers sandbagged every damp spot...
...spreads calm and good will like a road-oiling wagon. At home he is a model father to his three daughters, Margery, 15, Joyce, 14, Randall, 7. When they were younger he liked to tell them stories; particularly the story about the boy with his finger in the dike. But when business was on his mind he sometimes lost interest in the story and began mumbling about a law case. "Never mind the law case," the children would shout, "tell us about the boy with his finger in the dike." The family plays games like "20 Questions" and father...
...somewhat of a spot, since the first-string Whiz Kids allowed other members of the squad little time to work as a unit. In addition to the six-feet, seven-inch center Green, Combes is building his team around captain-guard Jack Burmaster, an excellent playmaker, and Dwight "Dike" Eddleman, the famed all-around star of three sports, football, basketball, and track...
...Dike Does Everything...
...week's end came failure. With the roar of a great explosion, the flood burst the dike, billowed over about 25,000 acres, destroying much of the area's winter wheat. A big stored crop of potatoes was lost. That was not the worst of it: the Fenlands' farmers feared that it might take two years to pump out the lowlands and restore them to productivity...