Word: damming
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...small town and small congregation, the Gospel of Christ is severely dam aged every time a guy like Wilkes makes his Madison Avenue pronouncements...
...wretchedest slum quarter of Partinico. a pinched little town near Palermo, a man lay starving last week. Friends dropped in to ask "Come va oggi [How are you today]?'' and the man would answer, smiling. "Bene, benissimo.' Over his cot a poster proclaimed: "The Dam Means Wealth, the Dam Means Progress, the Dam Means Confidence...
Sicily's angriest and least violent man, Danilo Dolci, 38, was staging a Gandhi-style fast to dramatize the need for a dam across the lato River, which could irrigate some 25,000 acres of parched, stingy land in the northwest. The government assigned funds for the dam two years ago. but, Dolci laments, "Not one stone 'has been turned." Danilo and the government had counted without Sicily's most implacable foe of progress: the Mafia...
Violently resisting any step that might loosen their feudal hold on the pinched and primitive peasantry, Mafia bullyboys scared off government engineers with threats and gunfire, sabotaged machinery for the dam. Landowners, whose fields would be submerged by the backed-up water, turned down the government's offer of $840 per acre, asked $3,600 instead -presumably on Mafia orders...
...founded Kaiser-style group practice in the California desert in 1933. Dr. Garfield was responsible for the health of construction workers on the Colorado River Aqueduct. His earliest plan covered only on-the-job injuries, but soon it was extended to all illnesses and injuries. At Grand Coulee Dam and in Kaiser's World War II shipyards, Dr. Garfield broadened his plan to cover workers' families as well. Modern Medikaiser is based on his early experience...