Word: dammed
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Since the characters remain incomprehensible, the incidents in which they are involved and upon which they comment necessarily fail to have much coherence. Briefly, the plot deals with a pair of Brazilian promoters who hatch a scheme to build a dam in the hinterlands of the upper Amazon. In order to show their prospective customers that some work is actually progressing, they send out an American engineer and a young college student to make a preliminary survey. But the plane in which the two are travelling crashes, and the student, after a delirious conversation with a Bahian sea goddess, finally...
...Pogo had seen the Harvard-Williams hockey game at Watson yesterday, in the third period he might have said, "the dam is bust...
...dam busted in the final stanza, as the varsity struck for seven goals to win the game...
...will probably put up some $200 million, most of which it will try to pass along to private capital. But the bank cannot commit this kind of money unless it is sure that the U.S. (plus Britain) will put up the remainder and stick with the project until the dam is completed...
China. Elsewhere, the range is even narrower. Students may spend two or three years in studying the engineering of one particular dam or the irrigation problems of one particular area...