Word: flints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...donned a pink shirt, khakis and cowboy boots to survey the epic flood that has devastated a vast section of Georgia and the Florida- Alabama panhandle. As his DC-9 descended through the clouds to the airport in Albany, Georgia, the President stared at the muddy waters of the Flint River cascading through the city streets below, washing over the roofs of stores, houses and churches. Even before stopping at a disaster-relief center, Clinton had pledged $60 million in federal disaster aid to help the three states provide emergency shelter and drinking water, rebuild federal highways, and make loans...
Meteorologists described the disaster as a freak occurrence caused when tropical storm Alberto traveled up from the Gulf of Mexico and stalled, dumping torrential rains. Roads, bridges and dams swiftly gave way to the swollen waters of the Flint and Ocmulgee rivers, bringing on a wave of tragedies. In the town of Americus, where 21 inches of rain fell within 24 hours, 16 people perished. Georgians will not soon forget the images of a young Americus woman screaming as the waters of Town Creek engulfed her car and swept her and her baby downstream. Or of dozens of coffins from...
...concerned, from now on, the only person worth turning to is Yeltsin. Maybe later on it'll be Zhirinovsky," concluded Asha, frantically trying to light his pipe with a lighter that had the U.N. insignia on it. No go. I guess there wasn't any flint left...
...Christmas speech, once beamed to GM's faithful around the world. A senior executive says one reason may be the unforgettable scene in the cruelly funny film Roger and Me of Roger Smith reading from Dickens' A Christmas Carol while autoworkers were being evicted from their homes in Flint, Michigan...
...doodled. The lower eyelid of a headlamp. A fender. A door window. A trunk. And wheels. Sometimes a teardrop, a spacecraft. Cars. Even hiding out behind the back desk of the third row wasn't enough to keep the Flint, Michigan, fourth-grader out of trouble, until an art teacher stopped by and became Tom Gale's first serious customer...