Word: flood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peril of the Popular. How many comrades in the rowdy new "peoples' democracies" of Eastern Europe felt the same? In Warsaw the jittery Yugoslav Embassy had received a flood of congratulatory telegrams-unsigned. Good students of history, the men of the Kremlin must have heard other echoes: the names of Kossuth, Kosciusko and other heroes of national independence. Here was the sharp point of their dilemma. For the great incandescent fact of the "Affair Tito" was simply this: like Tito, many a non-Russian Red still wanted to think of himself as a Yugoslav, Pole, Czech or Hungarian...
...foreign-aid program; the one-year extension of the reciprocal trade bill, with regret that it was not for the usual three-year period; the draft bill; appropriation bills carrying almost $10½ billion to bolster the Army, Navy and Air Force; the $573 million waterways and flood-control bill (TIME...
...ships, Plimsolls awash, groaned to be delivered of cargoes. This week many a Briton would eat more corned beef and dislike it, while fresh beef, Irish eggs and succulent tomatoes waited or rotted beneath battened hatches and in warehouses. Equally worrisome to Britain was the fact that a flood of goods intended for the export trade was piling up at dockside. And at week's end, this state of things had been going on for 13 days. The reason: a wildcat strike of 19,000 dockers who still scorned the come-back-to-work talk of Transport and General...
Last week's Senate approval of a proposal to enlist 25,000 selected D.P.s in the U.S. Army called for no Legion, but for enlistment in regular Army organizations. It did provide for citizenship after five years, and it brought a new flood of applications to U.S. embassies from Copenhagen to Rome. Said a Frankfurt student: "Deutschland ist kaputt. I'll take any chance to get out." In Rome, mechanics, priests, ex-soldiers tried to join up. Beetle-browed, thickset Luigi Fortunati stated bluntly: "I don't have a job and don't see any opportunity...
...Detroit's Garden City school board dismissed Mrs. Grace Flood for choking her pupils, beating their heads against the wall, taping their mouths, tying them to their seats. Defending her, four other teachers testified that her disciplinary technique was used by other teachers...