Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Floods are acts of God, but flood losses are acts of man'," Arthur A. Maass, assistant professor of Government, said last night in reference to the current rampaging Missouri River waters...
Fearful that his show may be taken over by exhibitionists, Nelson makes every effort to select the soundest applicants from his flood of mail. During the six years that the show has been on radio & TV, the grooms have included an executive of Douglas Aircraft Co., a Phi Beta Kappa from Western Reserve, an atomic scientist and Nelson's own brother-in-law. This week one of the grooms was Jacklyn Lucas, 24, who as a 17-year-old Marine corporal on Iwo Jima was the youngest man ever to win the Medal of Honor...
...their cows, patched their limestone houses and married their neighbors. Then came the French government, with the U.S. Marshall Plan dollars and an itch to spread electricity and progress. The government decided to raise a dam on the Isère River just above Tignes-a dam that would flood out the village...
...News, apparently deluged by a flood of letters which it did not print, began to get weary of the whole issue. A letter from one Harris L. Coulter '54 March 15 argued. "The Lower Court and Little Bahemia letters were funny, but that should have been the end of it. I hope this letter will...
Bishop to Power? Today, 80 priests are enrolled at Herrera's school, and many more, particularly of the post-revolution clergy, are gripped by his grand aim to swamp evil "with a flood of good." Few of them can match the bishop's activity. A year ago, he was in Mexico contacting Spanish refugees. Later, in Portugal, he conferred with the pretender to the Spanish throne. Don Juan, and the exiled onetime leader of Spain's Catholic party, Gil Robles. Last month he was off to Rome, where the Pope received him twice. This week...