Word: flood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parliament. Hertzog promised to invite his friend and rival to join his Government and help him deal with such pressing matters as a new tin miners' strike, an Argentine proposal for a trade treaty like the one Peron made with Chile (TIME, Dec. 23) and a flood in tropical Beni province (where alligators had chased the flood victims into the tree tops...
Bonnard would permit no one, not even himself, to criticize Edouard's work. Instead he rambled on about the colors that flood the eyes, and how to approximate their pure sparkle in paint. "Paint what you want," he told Edouard, "as you want to paint it. Treasure your freshness, your inspiration. The rest will come by itself...
...Taft was also battling a rising tide in Lilienthal's favor. All last week a flood of witnesses appeared before the Senate's Atomic Energy Committee to testify to Lilienthal's experience, ability and ideology. Scientists,' religious groups, plain citizens rallied to the Lilienthal cause. A Washington Post poll found 68% of the nation's Republican press pro-Lilienthal, only 14% anti. Atomic Trail-Blazer Albert Einstein urged confirmation. M.I.T.'s Dr. Karl Compton warned that many atomic scientists might take Lilienthal's defeat as the cue to pull out of the vast...
Expecting a flood of applicants for the honor of speaking at June Commencement, the Committee on Commencement Parts, headed by Mason Hammond '25, professor of Greek and Latin, yesterday announced that trials will be held next month to determine the one of two fortunate "cum laudes" who will address their classmates in June...
...fact, write "damn" but "dam," thus indicating that I accepted a possibly outmoded (1877) but attractive derivation of the phrase "a tinker's dam"-dam being any barrier, and, in particular, the wall of worthless dough "raised around a place which a plumber desires to flood with a coat of solder" (see Oxford Dictionary...