Word: dikes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Spin doctors perform miracles far beyond the capacity of their medical counterparts. Others besides Quayle have asserted in the past two years that "Dan Quayle was right" all along. Perhaps the revisionist trickle will turn into an unstoppable flood. But let us at least keep a finger in the dike...
Humanitarian aid is just a finger in a collapsing dike...
Workers also built a dike to stop radioactive material from leaking into the Pripyat River, located near the Chernobyl site...
Kilson considers himself "the first Black in," but he wasn't the last Ewart G. Guineer '33, the first chair of the newly born Afro-American Studies department, was also tenured in 1969 Gomes arrived in 1970, and Kenneth Dike was tenured...
...this time of year, the villagers would usually be busy cultivating the land, but their fields are flooded with salt water. The 10-ft. mud wall that normally keeps out the sea was washed away in the storm. Until the dike is rebuilt, the tides will bring more salinity to the soil, eventually making it unfit for farming and threatening Ujantia's existence...