Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With this off his chest, the President lifted his chin toward another questioner and shifted back into his usual verbal quickstep. He announced that he would take another look at the Midwest flood areas on his way home from the Japanese Peace Conference at San Francisco-adding, amid groans from his interrogators (who must follow him), that he proposed to do some of his flood-area inspecting on foot. Then he casually stood off yet another attempt to smoke him out on that most fascinating of subjects: 1952. He was asked if he would comment on a magazine article...
...word: her husband, soldierly, courtly Candido Licht, had been "killed in battle" in the civil conflict that Colombia now calls the Thousand Days' War. Some years later, Candido Licht, not dead but hiding out from vengeful wartime enemies, heard indirectly that his wife had been "drowned in a flood." That report was equally false. Each lived on and grew old, believing the other dead...
...acres of developed pump irrigation farms around the middle of the project region which, with the U.S.B.R. experimental farms, are proving the versatility, fertility and adaptability of the soil and climate. You have one of the best articles we have seen, but we groan to think of the flood of land inquiries pending...
Plans for an emergency Summer School Red Cross drive took rapid shape yesterday afternoon in response to growing estimates received by the Cambridge ARC Chapter earlier in the day of desperate need in the midwestern flood areas...
After a firsthand look at some damage and flood-fighting, Clark went back to file by wire five pages more copy, which he updated on Monday. Clark's report became a 78-line story, about a column and a quarter, in the July 23 issue. The writer in New York, aided by other reports from Washington and Topeka, Kans., worked from a full, clear picture of the flood...