Word: flood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senators-elect had graduated from the House. The seat of Virginia's late Carter Glass went to veteran Democratic Representative A. Willis Robertson, a disciple of economy-minded Harry Flood Byrd. Idaho's conscientious, isolationist Henry Dworshak moved up a notch after four terms as a G.O.P. Congressman...
There were all kinds of Democratic flotsam & jetsam washing about in the Republican flood - a lot of it eminently salvageable. The Solid South's brassbound, high-wheeled old vote-getting machine was hardly splashed, would obviously run as well as ever as soon as somebody chucked a few more corn cobs into the firebox. The Democrats still had the presidency, and the political beaches were littered with postmasters and bales of undamaged patronage...
Russia's tide was no longer rising in expansionist flood. Winds of ambition and intransigence might blow again from Moscow; carelessness or stupidity or complacency might breach again, and wider, the West's dikes. But last week it looked as if the worst had passed, and that Russia was resigned-for a while, at least-to boundaries of power which the rest of the world would consider safe...
After five years of flood, the tide in retail trade seemed about to turn last week. Sales were still enormous (see Earnings), and the upcoming Christmas shopping binge would keep them high, but more & more sales clerks heard two long forgotten phrases: "How much is it?" and "No thanks." All over the U.S. there were more & more signs that the sellers' market was turning into a buyers' market because 1) prices were too high or 2) the free-&-easy spenders of the first postwar rush had run out of money...
Hall Ulen's varsity swimmers deserted the exercise mat for their first aqueous practice yesterday, and found themselves inundated not only with water but a flood of 30 new Freshman candidates. "They don't sweat as much, but it's tough work just the same," aphorized Assistant Coach Bill Brooks, as successive six-man relays took of for 75 yard sprints...