Word: flood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days, people in St. Louis watched the flood-swollen Mississippi inch up on the levees. One night this week, the flood reached its awesome crest. Under steady pressure from weeks of rain throughout its vast basin, the Mississippi rose to its highest point in 103 years (39.3 feet), spilled into the city's grimy riverfront sections. Then, while hundreds of civilians and troops feverishly sandbagged key levees on the East St. Louis side, one of the sharpest earthquakes in St. Louis history rocked buildings, felled chimneys and split sidewalks...
...quake did little real damage. And since most of the city's main business and residential sections are set on high ground rising several blocks from the river front, the floods only wet the city's feet. But in the farm lands to the south, as far as the broad mouth of the Ohio River, every man that could be mustered worked on the levees as the flood swept down the valley...
Froth of a Flood. Last week in New Delhi, Queen-Empress Victoria's great-grandson, Rear Admiral Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India, was working hard to get out of India as fast as he could. To Hindu and Moslem politicos responsible for setting up two new dominions in India before mid-August he sent memos reminding them "only 62 more days," "only 55 more days." The British did not rely on Hindu and Moslem leaders' continuing to work together. The British wanted to clear out before India blew up in their faces...
...compound which serves him as headquarters, Gandhi licked his soul wounds: "I feel [India's violence] is just an indication," he told his followers, "that as we are throwing off the foreign yoke, all the dirt and froth is coming to the surface. When the Ganges is in flood the water is turbid...
Those for whom the unexpected is what makes life stimulating must find the gyrations of the present Congress almost insupportably exciting. The House, for example, after its flood of rhetoric about our obligation to shore up the world's economy through Truman doctrine expenditures, has calmly added to the wool bill an amendment which could very possibly ruin the wool industries of several nations. President Truman's message in vetoing the bill is therefore a minimum statement of sanity on the wool question...