Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Luce's script gives her every chance to flood the stage with tears, purity, and goodness. Every character has at least two problems, and it seems that only Margeret can fix things with the Lord for them. As the play rolls on, the problems rapidly deteriorate into such a tangle that even Margaret has serious trouble fixing things for everyone--including herself...
...lost and legendary Book of Lamech, the story of Noah's father. Some 26 lines from a fragment of the manuscript have led archaeologists and Biblical experts to assume that the priceless scroll contains the story of Noah's youth, of the coming of the Great Flood, of preparations for buildings and setting afloat...
...Every evening, swarms of shouting, jostling officers and G.I.s from every branch of the service -paratroopers, artillerymen, medics, engineers-roamed the streets and filled the gambling palaces. The hotels were jammed with high brass, and the big silvery transports sweeping down on McCarran Field kept adding to the flood. Then the planes stopped coming in, the khaki-clad Army abruptly vanished. Out on the desert, 65 miles away, 5.000 hand-picked troops were getting their final briefing before Exercise Desert Rock-the G.I.'s introduction to atomic warfare...
Carl expects to be busy though. On big week-ends he thinks men like to show their dates that they're easy with the money. The rest of the time? "They'd rather walk through the Kansas flood," said Carl...
...whirled with so much gusto that the crowd could hardly keep from stomping out the rhythm with them. Standout scene: Azucena's duet with Manrico, her foster-son and the instrument of her revenge against the aristocratic Di Luna family. The ballet, like the opera, ended in a flood of blood, with Azucena, Manrico and his sweetheart dying and the wicked Count di Luna going mad. The curtain came down with Azucena triumphant in her revenge-and, by proxy, Ruth Page triumphant in hers. The work got twelve curtain calls...