Word: flood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tended to its knitting. Both Houses rushed through a 30-day extension of rent control. The Maritime Commission's authority to charter and operate ships was extended for one year. The House voted $606 million for the Army's civil functions (including a record $539 million for flood control and navigation projects) and $503 million for the State, Justice and Commerce Departments. It then endorsed the Senate's proposal to cut $2.5 billion out of Harry Truman's budget...
Most foreign films, even the British crop, do not get wide distribution in the U.S.; but there is a current flood tide of good ones. Some of the best, roughly in order of merit...
...large, Nemo is an optimist: a heavy flood will bring forth a dissertation on the raindrop ("a masterpiece of jewel-like workmanship"), and "green sky is a double delight . . . beautiful to look upon and always suggesting fair weather." Even the Big Snow of '47 left him undismayed. After it was all over, he found it "fair, COLD, SPARKLING, STIMULATING, PERFECT! Dazzling white snow, sky of blue...
...meeting, scheduled for 7:45 o'clock at Adams House, will be chaired by Francis Keppel, Assistant to the Provost. Last week's conference on journalism has evoked a "flood of requests" for reprints from all over the country, the Placement Office said yesterday...
Those twenty-four hours are only the jumping off place for a flood of reminiscence that yields fifty-two flashbacks and several of the main lines of story. John Wickliff Shawnessy, a mid-century, mid-continent teacher-idealist-poet is the protagonist, and his life seems to represent the shadowy outlines of a larger history...