Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...efforts to whack some of the pork and patronage out of bureau payrolls, road projects, and reclamation dam plans in its huge ($32.5 billion) omnibus appropriation bill. Illinois' Douglas took his defeats philosophically. At one point when William Langer, standing next to him, was self-righteously arguing for flood control in his state of North Dakota, pumping out his reasons with his right arm, Douglas reached out and grasped Langer's hand and whimsically pumped along with...
...storm raging ten miles away in the hills and knows the rains have broken." A wall of brown, log-choked water bears down on him. "He staggers and falls, but the groan he gives is drowned by peals of thunder," and his carcass is smashed to bits as the flood hurtles it along. The reason elephant remains are seldom found: porcupines gnaw away the tusks to get at the nerve pulp, other scavengers destroy whatever else remains...
...into a situation like that one. We were ordered to hold at all cost. We did, but the cost was awful . . ." The Americans were driven back to the Kum River above Taejon. Most of them dug in south of the river, where they had the advantage of a flood-control dike 20 to 30 feet high...
...Here I am, about finished, and ready to slip into yesterday's seven thousand years of days ... I am the day on which you paid off the mortgage . . . signed an international treaty or had your tonsils out. Somewhere in my hours, I contained murder, flood, epidemic. You have used and abused me in billions of ways ... In another moment I will have become Yesterday! And so, along with your bag & baggage, your frailties and your grandeurs, I deliver you affectionately to Tomorrow. Hail & Farewell...
...flood was on. In the next few decades, Beadle's authors hacked out thousands of dime novels (priced anywhere from 5? to 50?), countless short stories, and even some poems of a sort...