Word: damming
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...like niggling. When his lawyer advised him that a proposed step was not quite legal, Carter roared: "The trouble with you is you're such a goddam technical lawyer." On giving orders for a blistering editorial, he is likely to caution: "Don't put too god dam much Christianity in it. Libel? You trying to tell me what I can put in my own paper...
...Angeles County (which frequently strives to be different) is building an underground dam-made of water. Purpose of the new dam: to keep the sea from seeping into the deep wells that supply a large part of the water for half a million people...
...sectional issue. But it is sectional only in its harmful effects: it will hurt the coastal ports and the railroads that service them. It's benefits, however, would be national, not sectional. One has only to look at past "sectional" projects--the TVA, the Panama Canal, the Grand Coulee Dam--all of which, though they hurt local interests, benefitted the whole nation...
...emerge with deep conclusions, doesn't always know what level he is at. One of his amusements is to slip through the registry a name for a horse which the registrar will later regret. An example of this was False Front. The registrar did not note that the dam was named Superficial...
...gambling, liquor and prostitution, and for lower freight rates for the Northwest, better parks and other projects which helped build up Spokane and the region. In one fiercely fought local campaign, a crank twice tried to dynamite the papers' plant. The Review also battled plans for Grand Coulee dam, but even former Staffer Dyar now admits that the dam brought "a new era of prosperity and growth" to the Northwest. Cowles built a quartet of still thriving tabloid weeklies, the Idaho Farmer, Washington Farmer, Oregon Farmer and Utah Farmer (total circ...