Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Omaha. While watching sandbags being piled on the levees just one step ahead of the rising river, he was pressed into service in a chain of men passing the heavy bags from hand to hand. Working in the mud and rain to help ward off the greatest Missouri River flood on record, Josephy soon found out just how devastating an enemy the river could...
Virginia's conservative Senator Harry Flood Byrd, 65, has controlled his state for 27 years-ever since he won the governorship back in 1925 and wrested control of the rural Democratic machine from Bishop James Cannon Jr., chairman of the Board of Temperance and Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Since World War II the Senator has had a lot of criticism and competition. In 1946, a Richmond lawyer named Martin A. Hutchinson ran up a startling 82,000 votes (against Byrd's 142,000) in the senatorial primary; in 1949, wellborn; Colonel Francis Pickens Miller...
There was a flood of applications from schools (for both commercial and noncommercial permits), radio stations, newspapers, theater interests, a coal company, a real estate company, a tobacco company, several insurance companies and religious organizations. Some well-known names were also in the running: Mary Pickford Rogers, in Winston-Salem, N.C.; Bing Crosby Enterprises, in Spokane, Wash.; Democratic National Committee Chairman Frank McKinney & friends, in Indianapolis; Economic Stabilizer Roger Putnam, in Springfield, Mass. Denver, which now has no TV, is the biggest plum. Among the hopeful applicants: Comedian Bob Hope and Denver's Mayor Quigg Newton...
...Novelist Marguerite Steen punched out a 2¼-lb., 1,015-page bundle of picaresque entitled The Sun Is My Undoing. It was all about a lusty, highly unprincipled family named Flood, who built up a tidy 18th-century fortune in the slave trade, and it sold more than 600,000 copies in all editions. Three years ago, in Twilight on the Floods, Author Steen brought the family up to the late 19th century, and showed them ebbing into downright respectability. Now, in Jehovah Blues, she puts a short and almost dispirited postscript to the story; the Floods have evaporated...
Poor Aldebaran Flood. She is beautiful (if one admires a face of "grey bone with a coral gash across it"), and she could paper Piccadilly with the receipts from her bestselling novel, Bells on Her Fingers. But Aldebaran is a child of fate-the "blood guilt" of her ancestors keeps "working itself out," and she "can't help being passionate about anything to do with colored people...