Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time before you see another structure of this kind." This statement brought forth from the "Truth Squad" the assertion that the Republican-controlled 80th Congress had appropriated more money for Hungry Horse than had the Democratic-controlled 79th Congress. Replied Eisenhower: "Anyone who thinks I am not interested in flood control and all the reclamation projects that we have in sight ... is just talking through...
...press greeted the 1947 Arboretum expedition with a flood of publicity and two different writers asked Merrill to "confirm" the following story: A Harvard-trained botanist in the Air Force was flying over the hump during the war when was forced to bail out over China. He landed unconscious, and when he recovered he found he was lying under a Metasequoia--"in other words his training at Harvard was so good that he knew all about the tree before botanists even knew the species," Merrill chuckled yesterday...
...Nixon's campaign manager admitted that his boss misused (by Nixon's detinition) the Senatorial franking privilege for political purposes? That Eisenhower should select such a vice-president, that he should allow the possibility of Nixon's assuming the chief executive's office, and that he should permit a flood of prepared telegrams to decide for him the fate of this opportunist, is a shabby commentary on the General's much vaunted leadership...
...queuers were hoping for standing room. Reserved seats had been gone since July. Within a few days of the announcement that Toscanini would conduct a pair of fall concerts, Festival Hall drew a flood of 60,000 requests for tickets. Since the hall could hold no more than 6,522 at the two concerts, reserved seats were parceled out by lot to every tenth applicant. The top price was raised from $1.70 to $14.70 a ticket, but music lovers hardly even blinked at the prices...
...moved again, this time not even telling his department. Kennedy once toyed with the idea of letting an omniscient IBM machine take over his duties for him, but he has given up hope of relief from that source. How could the IBM machine know what to do with a flood of requests for a room on Mon., Wed., and Fri. at 10, the most popular hour? Kennedy smiles, pours over Mr. Barre's chart and says, "An IBM machine couldn't tell that Professor Jones' lumbago demands a ground floor lecture hall, or that Abernathy finds inspiration only with...