Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From all over the world, offers of help poured in to the flood victims. U.S. and British helicopters fluttered everywhere, picking refugees from the swirling waters. Many of the rescued were tied to the outside of the whirlybirds like packages on a gypsy caravan. From Britain, herself heavily stricken (300 dead), came boats, planes, and engineering supplies as well. In one day the R.A.F. flew in some 50,000 sandbags. U.S. motorized columns raced across Germany's Autobahnen into The Netherlands to lend a hand, while fleets of Flying Boxcars roared in laden with life rafts, serums, and other...
...Belgium, where the flood waters spread over 40,000 acres and took a toll of 14 lives, 22-year-old King Baudouin, less royally gifted with a sense of fitness, raised another storm by leaving his country in mid-disaster to sojourn with his father, deposed King Leopold II, on the balmy French Riviera...
...Shore, past half a hundred adults, and straight to the table up front. With the poise of a veteran performer, Mike perched himself on a stool next to Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs, who asked simply: "Well, Mike, how do you feel?" The boy's answer came in a happy flood: "I have an alarm clock and I dress myself and my mommy loves me all the time...
...certain that once a single lawmaker raises his voice in the halls of Congress over the Conant appointment, others will join promptly to create a veritable flood of criticism...
Across the Channel, from the Orkneys south to Dover, the low-lying British coast lay beaten and flooded. Here & there a lonely church spire rose above scenes of desolation. Dozens of bodies and thousands of head of livestock floated dead on the floodwaters. Norfolk, the hardest hit, was first to report high casualties-17 bodies found floating on the flood waters at Felixstowe, scores of other deaths-including at least nine U.S. servicemen and their kin from the East Anglian bomber base in Hunstanton. On the west of Britain, the storm took 128 in one blow when it swamped...