Word: flood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guns thundered an unprecedented salute to a great twin victory by two ex-peasants now be come marshals: 1) tank-expert Gregory Zhukov's drive to the old Czech border and 2) infantry-expert Ivan Konev's 40-mile thrust into Rumania. In spite of mud and flood-swollen rivers the Red Army was still on the march it began in December some 300 miles to the east...
...Holland the Nazis had started flooding the country, blustered of plans to flood 5,000 square miles as an invasion barrier. Actually, while flooding large parts of Holland is possible, flooding the western coastal areas would be a vast engineering job, involving destruction of the great, three-deep system of dikes and dunes known to Dutchmen as the Watchman, Sleeper and Dreamer. (In London Dutchmen were already talking of a compensating slice of northwestern Germany if war's end finds any large portion of Holland's precious topsoil ruined by German-inflicted floods...
...Russian flood had leaped one barrier after another, leaped them so fast that before any compartment had been fully flooded, the next had already been breached. How different this was from successful retreat was shown by the results...
...lava, 2,500° F. hot, more than 30 feet deep and 200 yards wide, rolled over the funicular that had carried many a tourist to the Valle dell' Inferno near the crater's edge. Glowing boulders rattled from the mainstream, set orchards and vineyards afire. The flood engulfed the village of San Sebastiano: first a stone house, then the yellow school and the little church, finally the wineshop...
Johnstown rebuilt its steel plants and homes, but failed to undertake flood control. The town was very vulnerable to floods because of 1) heavy rainfall (47.5 in. a year, 12 in. more than in Pittsburgh, 58 miles away), and 2) narrow, shallow river channels that did not carry off the water fast enough. When, on March 17, 1936, a great flood struck again, destroying $40,000,000 of Johnstown property, the town's 67,000 citizens as one man asked the U.S. for help...