Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arab nationalism might wash the whole Arab East into one Nasser ruled state. But the West threw up its dikes in Lebanon and Jordan, and the Communism that Nasser had invited into the Middle East was now helping Iraq's Premier Kassem to roll back the Arab nationalist flood from Baghdad...
...expected big trouble when the season's main flood waters hit the dam-and we have got it," said a dispirited game warden last week as he stood on the banks of Rhodesia's man-made Kariba lake. Before his weary, red-rimmed eyes lay a vast tract of drowning land. Two hundred yards away a dozen monkeys clung to the rocky crown of a tiny island that was being swallowed up in the dappled waters. The monkeys' ribs showed through their shrunken skin, their liquid, pleading eyes turned desperately this way and that...
...lore is rich with the stories of heroic men and women who have used the telephone to save the lives of others in answering 12 million emergency calls every year. In 1908 Operator .Sally Rooke stayed at her switchboard to warn the people of Folsom, N.Mex. of a flash flood until she herself was swept to death by the waters. A Chicago couple who reached a phone just before being overcome by leaking gas gave the operator who summoned help an oft-voiced tribute: "We wish to thank you for saving our lives...
...Richmond. Governor Almond was careful to placate Senator Harry Flood Byrd's entrenched massive-resistance leaders. But he moved purposefully to consolidate the new coalition of moderates who helped him hold the line against the Byrdmen's drive for some last, Faubus-style gesture of defiance. "I don't feel defeated." said Almond, "just realistic." Carefully he picked 40 legislators for a commission to frame further resistance measures. Though segregationists all, the commission's members represented a gentle but firm shift away from control by the diehards from heavily Negro South-side Virginia, long the stronghold...
While the flood-fighting pace quickened in Terre Haute, the high water receded rapidly upstream at Peru, where a deluge poured over the top of a levee Wednesday night and forced 675 people to flee...