Word: downstream
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...rowing just under the Anderson Bridge, heading downstream, he remembers. And he was smiling contently. Sitting in his seat, he was thinking to himself how happy--and how pleasantly surprised--he was that all three of the Crimson boats were still in the water so late in the year...
...people along the Ohio River, residents were unaware that in the darkness a 40-ft. wall of water had risen in Wegee Creek, which is usually ankle deep, and was rolling toward them. It hit with enough force to knock frame houses off their foundations, carry mobile homes downstream and buckle the concrete walls of a tavern. One patron was carried away by the water; another survived by clinging to a bar stool. Not far away, the onrushing water smashed into the house of Robert and Rose Ramsey, crushing the woman...
...Rowing downstream into a slight cross-headwind, the Crimson decided to forego the sprint and conserve energy for Sunday's races, realizing the Compton Cup was safely in hand. The Crimson finished Saturday's race a solid length-and-a-half ahead of Princeton, with a hapless MIT trailing somewhere in Harvard's wake...
With the push of a button at the new Ataturk Dam last week, Turkey's President Turgut Ozal cut the flow of the Euphrates River to Syria and Iraq, his country's arid downstream neighbors, by 75%. The month-long diversion will enable Turkish engineers to fill a reservoir that will be used for irrigation and hydroelectric power...