Word: flood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generation which had started to think after the flood. It had no traditions, and no memories to bind it to the old. vanished world. It was a generation born without an umbilical cord . . . colorless, barren voice . . . never smiled . . . absolute humorlessness . . . without frivolity, without melancholy . . . generation of modern Neanderthalers...
...Dust Bowl. Instead of riding the highways, the Puerto Ricans rode the skies. Most of them arrived in the bucket seats of converted Army transport planes, operated by charter airlines at bargain rates. By last week, the migration from their crowded, poverty-stricken land to the U.S. was at flood tide...
Puerto Rico's home government, which knows that migration is the best and easiest solution to the island's unemployment, hopes that somebody will work out a plan to channel the migrants to U.S. farm and industrial areas. Any diversion of the flood would take a lot of doing; the Puerto Rican in New York or San Juan is subject to no more restrictions or compulsions than any other U.S. citizen...
...Library of Congress braced itself for a flood of inquiries. Said Dr. C. Percy Powell of the Library's Manuscripts Division: "Everyone who had a grandfather in the Civil War will come in here to see if Lincoln wrote him a letter...
...Omaha, the governors of ten states met to protest congressional cuts in next year's flood control appropriations, asked the Congress to put the money back...