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a flood dam built to contain water that is released for driving logs.

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A dam now in place on the Thai side of the line prevents the railway from being reconstructed in its entirety, he explains.
Riding Thailand’s WWII Death Railway|Liza Foreman|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
When the family was fine, or when a cruel employee at the dam was behind the flood, God was left out of the explanation.
Why Are Millennials Unfriending Organized Religion?|Vlad Chituc|November 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The episode does not seem to have made much of a splash in the race thus far.
Watch a Republican Try to Duck the Abortion Ban He Cosponsored|Jack Holmes|October 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Whereas Gotham mopes in the shadows, The Flash bursts like a splash page.
‘The Flash’ Review: Teen Angst Gets a Comic Book Quickie|Sujay Kumar|October 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Your first big splash was in Cape Fear, and that auditorium scene between you and De Niro is beyond creepy to this day.
Juliette Lewis on Hollywood, Why the MSM Hates Scientology, and Masturbating to George Clooney|Marlow Stern|September 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They heard how in the early spring in the meadow by the mill-dam Tim and I had stopped our ploughs to draw lots and he had lost.
The Soldier of the Valley|Nelson Lloyd
The invitation was accepted; and Mr. Bellamy's grand carriage drew up immediately with splash and clatter to the door.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
For that matter, he said, he didn't care a tinker's dam if we were; he had grub and bedding and we were welcome to both.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
There was a tiny splash, a laugh, and the little greenheart rod flicked a trout high over his head.
Uncanny Tales|Various
The great Dam at Assouan was just completed and we traversed its entire length on a trolley propelled by natives.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow