Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...damning, but can we not say charitably in this season of love that the previous record of fault was a wild oat carelessly sown and repented? After all, how many beneficent builders of the nation's libraries, hospitals, and universities have buried their "robber baron" beginnings under a flood of gifts that is a mere trickle when compared to Claus' munificence over the centuries...
Evidently, some method for damming up this flood of cheap literature must be established--a method which can avoid the dangers implicit in covert censorship...
...diplomatic relations with Russia, and allow the country's Reds to come out of hiding. The Bolivian government, which kicked American investors out of the tin industry, told the people that American refusal to pay a "fair" price for tin is at the root of their ecomic disaster. A flood of Communist and nationalist propaganda ruined our bid for a defense treaty with Mexico. Throughout Central and South America, in fact, politicians have found that denouncing the Yanqui pays off in votes. If such a hate drive continues, we may soon be playing Britain to Latin America's Iran...
...will undoubtedly receive a flood of protests from horrified, or should I say enraged art lovers, following the much-too-generous presentation, in your Oct. 27 issue, of some of the smudgy and meaningless paintings submitted recently to the Pittsburgh Carnegie International art show . . . What on earth sane-minded people can see in these blotches of color is beyond me. Picasso was bad enough, but this is really the limit! Pittsburgh has long been noted for its smoky atmosphere, and I would not be a bit surprised if the soot coming out of its innumerable chimneys has finally obscured...
Kansas. Pushing upstream as the Republican flood rolled across Kansas, Democrat Howard S. Miller, 73-year-old farmer-lawyer from Morrill, ousted Republican Representative Albert Cole. The reason: Cole supported the Tuttle Creek Dam (TIME, Sept. 1), part of the Missouri River development program. Many residents of the district oppose the dam because it would require abandonment of many farms. A group of farm wives organized a motorcade and toured the district with Miller under the slogan: "Let's quit this dam foolishness...