Word: damming
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...week ground on. He visited the Bellas Artes palace, presented lettered gold rings to graduates in mechanical and electrical engineering, set the hearts of half the contractors in Mexico City aflutter by declaring that he would disclose the names of successful bidders on the Obregón dam in Sonora this week. Then he left town for Cuernavaca...
Died. Sir John Watson Gibson, 61, famed engineer who tourniqueted the Blue Nile with the Sennar Dam, climaxed his career with the breakwaters for the two Mulberry Harbors-the artificial ports that made the Normandy invasion easier; of lung trouble; in London. The Mulberry Harbors were started across the Channel on Dday; by D-plus-100 they had received more than two million troops, 500,000 vehicles, 17 million tons of materiel and supplies...
...floor, members whooped it up on a vote to change the name of Boulder Dam back to Hoover Dam, and challenged the Senate to a ball game...
...quote it) "care a damn" if Prince Philip married Princess Elizabeth. This comment is unfair to Billingsgate and to me. In so far as Billingsgate fish-market porters use oaths at all, they use far richer ones than "damn." And I did not, in fact, write "damn" but "dam," thus indicating that I accepted a possibly outmoded (1877) but attractive derivation of the phrase "a tinker's dam"-dam being any barrier, and, in particular, the wall of worthless dough "raised around a place which a plumber desires to flood with a coat of solder" (see Oxford Dictionary...
...major digs are now in progress. In Russian Azerbaijan, close to the Persian border, the Soviet Government is building a hydroelectric dam. Red Army tanks, doubling as bulldozers, uncovered relics which looked so interesting that experts from Baku took over...