Word: dikes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high hills of Montana lie covered by one of the biggest snowfalls within memory. With a warming February wind, melted snows began swelling Montana's Madison River east of Butte. Soon the rising waters breached a dike, flooding low-lying farm land and forcing nine families in Three Forks to evacuate their homes...
...Even the blandest men in power?William Mc-Kinley, for example?can draw a maniac's fire. But the Kennedys are freighted with American legend and invite the passionate involvement of strangers. It shows in the grimy and lonely attention of people who have carved away pieces of the Dike Bridge at Chappaquiddick for souvenirs, or those who have taken to the Kennedy Center like locusts, swiping prisms from the chandeliers, bits of the wall coverings and pink marble handles from the ladies'-room faucets...
...first setting foot on the moon ?why and when he and Mary Jo Kopechne left the party at a cottage on the island, why and how he failed to summon help immediately instead of waiting until the next morning when his car was discovered under the Dike Bridge. A week afterward, he went on television with a carefully crafted and largely ghostwritten statement, pleading that while his conduct was indeed "indefensible," his doctors "informed me that I suffered a cerebral concussion as well as shock." In the national mind, the lacunae and the doubts remain. That night will surely...
Belin called her efforts as acting dean "merely a finger in the dike" until a new dean could be found...
...York City cop. He reinforced the testimony of both Sledge and Turner, then added a weird example of the kind of transformation that men in combat can undergo. At one point, Dursi related, having rounded up a group of civilians, "Meadlo had them sitting on a dike [near the trail]. He was playing with the kids, giving them C-rations and candy like we always did." Calley arrived and asked Meadlo, "Why haven't you wasted them?" As Dursi moved away, he heard automatic gunfire coming from Meadlo's area. Dursi also testified to witnessing Calley and Meadlo...