Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former Ibis of the Lampoon, Charles Bracelen Flood '51 began his novel in Professor MacLeish's course, writing about the world he knows best--an exclusive milieu of Oyster Bay, Marlborough Street, Northeast Harbor. Mr. Flood is too much a product of this world to be rewarding to critics intent on the game of pinning the tale on other authors. Except for a brief glimpse of the Tycoon in his Wall Street lair, there is no trace of Fitzgerald's awe in the book's pictures of the twenties. Nor does Mr. Flood have any of Marquand Sr.'s quiet...
...Shivers. This week he continued his southward journey into Mexico. Crossing the Rio Grande at Laredo, he met Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, and with him dedicated the $50 million international Falcon Dam, a five-mile-long earth and rock-fill barrier, that will bring irrigation and flood control to both sides of the Rio Grande and electricity to light up the border towns. Before the dedication, both Presidents watched a fiesta in the dam-born village of Nuevo Guerrero, and toasted their good-neighboring countries at the Municipal Palace...
...river Charles were suddenly to flood all of Cambridge, there would be only one building fully prepared to withstand the raging waters. Below decks in Vanserg Hall, the NROTC has accumulated an historical and practical collection of Naval what-nots. Sextants, compasses, and half hitches stand beside depth charges and three-inch guns. Guiding me through this seaworthy maze was Lieutenant R. H. Curtin, NROTC gunnery instructor...
Looking cold, wet and royally uncomfortable, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands was photographed wading about Schouwen island, which has been covered by flood waters since the breaching of the dikes in last winter's gales...
...advance guard of soap opera, helped start it on its interminable way more than 20 years ago with The Puddle Family. P. & G. writers were among the first to learn that the trick is to spin the story out to fantastic lengths, with a flood of tears to wash away every smile. This year, with 13 soap operas on the air, P. & G. is the biggest advertiser in the U.S., will spend an estimated $30 million in network radio and TV, $15 million in newspapers and magazines...