Word: damming
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...vast wilderness beyond the rocky Laurentian hills a giant of World War II is rising to harness the power of Canada's white waters for the production of aluminum. Men have been toiling in these wooded hills, in rain and snow and ice, to build a dam which will rank among the world's greatest power developments...
...businessman of 1942, not only because of his immense energy and drive but because he applied them to the most critical of all problems-the supply of shipping. Kaiser had never built a ship up to the time that Hitler invaded Poland. He had built highways, helped build Boulder Dam, and had learned, in his own phrase, to handle "the heavy materials." Kaiser's ability to handle heavy materials allowed him to cut the time for delivering a Liberty ship from an initial 197 days to an average of under 40 days in his Portland yards, as against...
...fever, the vitamin-C level in the body goes down; at the same time, histamine in the blood goes up. Histamine is the villain of allergy, for it is an irritating substance normally present in small amounts in the body but formed in large quantities whenever tissues are dam aged - e.g., in the red area around a burn...
...developed at week's end. The Russians had isolated Velikie Luki; they had broken three rail lines and had put four German infantry divisions and one tank division to rout. But, compared to the Stalingrad offense, the Rzhev action was so far only a knocking against the German dam...
...philosophy that when you have a commander in the field, let him know what you want done and then let him alone. I have two other philosophies. One is: Do the best you can with what you have. The other is: Don't worry about water over the dam...