Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that easy. Under the House system as it has evolved over the decades, the floor leader, the Speaker or anyone else must nearly always go through the Rules Committee to get legislation to the floor. The Rules Committee serves as an absolutely necessary check on the flood of bills introduced each session by the members of the House (by last weekend they had introduced 3,443 so far this session). But beyond that, notions differ. "Some think we are just a traffic cop," says Rules Committee Chairman Howard Smith. "Others feel that we have to be selective and exercise...
...Israel last week, where Rumanian Jews were arriving at the rate of 6,000 a month, authorities estimated that 100,000 of the 250,000 Jews left in Rumania would, if allowed, join the exodus to Israel over the next months. This flood would easily top the 40,000 that Poland let out after its 1956 thaw, and would leave Russia's 3,000,000 as the only big Jewish community remaining in Eastern Europe. Rumania's action, says one Israeli official, "promises to be bigger than the Spanish expulsion...
TIME'S review of The Inn of the Sixth Happiness [Dec. 22] was more jejune than usual. The sophomore-with-typewriter who pecked out this tirade quite evidently cannot distinguish between sentiment and sentimentality. The movie has more "treacle [than] the Great Boston Molasses Flood." Why not park your lad next to his cliché factory and pray for a small explosion...
Slowly, the flood subsided and lost itself in the waters of Lake Sanabria. On the surface floated the bodies of men, women and children. Dead cows, pigs and chickens were mingled indiscriminately with tree trunks, telegraph poles, rooftops, household goods. A man caught in his home floated to safety on the inflated rubber mattress on which he was sleeping. The innkeeper, who escaped to the hillside, went back to empty his cash register and was drowned. Just before the water hit, an elderly couple dashed back for their life savings. They disappeared. Of the village's 500 inhabitants...
...that was needed from Batista's army, 21,000 strong and well armed, was the simple nerve required to go in and flush them out. The army tried terror instead of courage; it tortured suspects, shipped the dismembered bodies of students home to their mothers. Result: a flood of arms and recruits for Castro...