damning Hoover Dam, canyon, powerful , powerless

Second Powerful Earthquake Hits Japan

By JONATHAN SOBLE 5:53 AM ET

A powerful earthquake struck the island of Kyushu on Saturday, killing at least 23 people. Nine people died in a quake in the same area on Thursday.

‘Matilda the Musical’

By BEN BRANTLEY

A British import adapted from Roald Dahl’s 1988 novel is a tale of empowerment told from the perspective of the most powerless group — little children.

China Daily, via Reuters

After Crash, a Stark Depiction of Injustice

By MICHAEL WINES and IAN JOHNSON

A traffic accident in China that killed 23 people, mostly children, set off angry online discussions about the canyon that separates the powerful from the powerless.

canyon[can・yon]

• レベル：社会人必須
• 発音記号[kǽnjən]
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[名]峡谷（▼米南西部やメキシコに多い. ⇒GRAND CANYON）；海底谷.

［スペイン語cañon←ラテン語canna（管）. 峡谷はパイプのようであることから］

A senior Iranian official has accused the US of feeding forged intelligence on Iran's nuclear program to the International Atomic Energy Agency, following a damning statement from the UN Security Council this week.

Spotlight:

Hoover Dam

Boulder Canyon Dam, Hoover Dam, Boulder Dam, Hoover Dam... Why was it so hard to settle on the dam's name? The site chosen for what would become the world's largest concrete structure was on the Colorado River, adjacent to Boulder Canyon, and it was known for a time as the Boulder Canyon Dam Project. The last concrete for the dam was poured on this date in 1935, about four months before President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the structure. During an earlier speech at the dam, President Herbert Hoover's interior secretary, Ray Wilbur, referred to it as Hoover Dam. But Hoover, who was being blamed for the Great Depression, was not a popular man at the time. When in 1932 he was replaced in the White House by FDR, Roosevelt's interior secretary, Harold Ickes, changed the name to Boulder Dam. Fifteen years later, in 1947, Congress pressured the new president Harry Truman to restore Hoover's name to the dam, and he did.

Quote:

"The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in politics... If they feel that way about it, I don't see why they don't just reverse the two words." — Will Rogers

damn
v., damned, damn·ing, damns. v.tr.

1. To pronounce an adverse judgment upon. See synonyms at condemn.
2. To bring about the failure of; ruin.
3. To condemn as harmful, illegal, or immoral: a cleric who damned gambling and strong drink.
4. To condemn to everlasting punishment or a similar fate; doom.
5. To swear at.

v.intr.
To swear; curse.

interj.
Used to express anger, irritation, contempt, or disappointment.

n.

1. The saying of "damn" as a curse.
2. Informal. The least valuable bit; a jot: not worth a damn.

adv. & adj.
Damned.

idiom:

damn well

1. Without any doubt; positively: I am damn well going to file charges against him.

[Middle English dampnen, from Old French dampner, from Latin damnāre, to condemn, inflict loss upon, from damnum, loss.]

damningly damn'ing·ly adv.



damning

a.That damns; damnable; as, damning evidence of guilt.



 powerless

adjective

[often with infinitive]

• without ability, influence, or power:troops were powerless to stop last night’s shooting

Derivatives

powerlessly

adverb

powerlessness

noun