Word: awash
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...Colorado when gold was pouring out of the fabulous Cripple Creek district. He got his share of the West's wealth, first as a lawyer, then as a financier of railroads, then as a banker, finally as an oilman. It was a heady day, when Denver was awash with new millionaires and old champagne bottles, and Henry Blackmer was the biggest spender and entertainer of all. He earned a reputation for blowing half a million dollars a year for 13 years...
...sleek sister moved in through the icy, spume-laced seas to her side. It was a deadly task. Both vessels were rolling wildly and constantly awash, and their hulls were as bare of hand holds as two whale's backs. A rubber boat set out from the Cochino, lost a man in the enormous waves...
...recent years, it had seemed to Harvard football players that they were awash in seas of indifference. Pre-game rallies, a kind of Nürnberg spectacle on many campuses, usually proved duds at Harvard. Only once a year did the mask of indifference drop-the weekend that Harvard met Yale. Then past Crimson heroes, old and out-of-shape, revisited Cambridge to talk do-or-die. This year, Harvard had imported Art Valpey (formerly one of Fritz Crisler's aides at Michigan), and the old order changed...
Manhattan's massive Metropolitan Museum of Art lay awash this week in a show of pictures and ship models illustrating the history of the U.S. Navy. It was the un-arty kind of exhibition that brings in people who ordinarily would not bother to go into an art museum. It also included some topgallant...
...dikes of the broad Yangtze still held, but the river had set new high water marks, was still rising. At Ichang, a record 100 ft. of water halted all upriver traffic through the famed gorges leading to Chungking; Hankow's suburbs were awash; Kiukiang's busy wharves lay submerged, and sampans instead of rickshas carried passengers through the streets...