Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Princeton, the former is usually the case. Princeton freshmen are required to wear little black dinks, (the fields of hazing and spirit are hopelessly enmeshed). At the end of September, a flood of dinkless frosh swept into Princeton's Commons, in direct violation of an old Nassan tradition. Sophomores rallied round the supper table, linked arms, and shouted "No Dinks, No Dinner!" One freshman hit his head against a Gothic wall, but the fight reeled its way onto the steps of Nassau Hall, where the sophomores overwhelmed the freshmen. The Daily Princetonian listed six freshmen who were subsequently treated...
...precise explanation for the break, other than such old standbys as "profit taking, the Korean situation, fear of more taxes, etc." But the Wall Street Journal made a valiant try to find something new. The trouble was that business was too good. Reported the Journal: some traders said "the flood of good earnings and higher dividends had had a satiating effect and had certainly 'spread' the interest so widely through the list that there was not sufficient concentration of buying" behind any one stock. In short, there were so many good buys that investors simply could not make...
...divert the course of a river and flood the Reds' G.H.Q...
Outcries. Most visitors were admitted after a couple of days for a temporary stay. At week's end, with 131 aliens still in custody, the State Department stemmed the flood by canceling temporarily all U.S. visas all over the world. U.S. consulates were swamped with travelers trying to get a new visa under the new rules; many simply canceled passage. In Europe, the Communist press happily crowed about "American political racism" and referred to Ellis Island as "that well-known concentration camp...
...bureau, nestling beside three golden wigs, they found the La Rochefoucauld sewing box and a gold necklace. At first the Comtesse de Marliave said the necklace belonged to her own family, but Yvonne produced a bill of sale to the La Rochefoucaulds; it was dated 1826. Then in a flood of tears, the balding 56-year-old Comtesse de Marliave admitted she had been given the jewels for safekeeping, had sold them to raise money during hard times. She accused her great & good friend, Sculptor Louis-Robert Sarlin, of arranging for their sale. "I gave him everything," she wailed...