Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Front-Office Punch. The man who made the Journal what it is today is Harry Johnston Grant, a square, muscular dynamo of a man with white hair and bloodshot blue eyes. An omnivorous reader, he is also an overpowering talker with a Walt Whitman-like flood of words (studded with four-letter ones) and a sincere belief that the successful operation of the paper is a public trust. He is purposely unknown to most Milwaukeeans. He declines most social invitations, has few friends, fearing that outsiders might try to influence the paper. He is also an enigma to most...
...more loosely-drawn or more dangerous. But the connivance of Senators McCarran and Kilgore and other eager helpers in both branches of the legislature, converted it into just that. The original security measures requested by the President are in the new bill, but they have been submerged in a flood of provisions that would, according to Mr. Truman's veto message, endanger civil liberties and interfere with the genuine security activities of the Government...
...flood of radio & TV shows returning to the air last week, two stood out for technical and professional competence...
While atomic blows were exchanged, the Red army would engulf Europe. There is nothing yet in Europe that could dam the Red flood. U.S. atomic damage to Russia would be strategically effective only if the Red army were forced by large-scale fighting to expend its hoarded oil, ammunition and other materials. Preventive war in 1950 would mean that the Russians 1) could wreak terrible damage on the U.S., and 2) could take and hold Western Europe, which would be worth more to them than all the targets in Russia that the U.S. could destroy by atomic bombing...
...contained a directive to the White House to do what Congress refused to do itself-cut non-defense items by $550 million. It provided a small sop to congressional consciences by carving $77 million off the $763 million pork items (rivers, harbors, flood control) and directing that none of these projects should be undertaken unless they were ready for completion, or contributed to the war effort...