Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jail, Herman Joseph Flood Jr., 20, confessed. His motive, he said, was robbery. His take: $5. What had brought him back to the scene (in a stolen car)? Said Killer Flood: "I kept hearing that announcement over the radio...
...present function, not as useful to the city as it might be. They assert that a modern industrial center of about 60 acres might be built on the land which is now under water. That the water backed up as a result of piling operations might flood numerous cellars all along the Charles, or that the plan would eliminate one of the metropolitan area's most used and sightly parks, the Sullivans fail to mention...
...stock market entered 1958 in an upbeat mood. After months of slow decline, a record 5,073,730 shares changed hands on the last trading day of 1957. Despite the flood of shares offered by traders to establish tax losses, the Dow-Jones Industrial Average rose 3.91 points. Thereafter, with the selling pressure off, the index bounded another 8.87 points in the first two trading days of 1958, ended at 444.56, well above the low of 419.79 set two months...
...Semitic people called the Sumerians. They, drained the marshes of the delta and built a highly developed civilization of irrigated fields, pastures and theocratic city states. An 8-to-10-ft. deposit of clay from about 4000 B.C. indicates a possible Sumerian basis for the Biblical story of the Flood, and the Sumerian version has its Noah-a good man named Ziusudra who was instructed by two gods how to build an ark and save himself and his family from the inundation that would destroy mankind. Like Noah, Ziusudra determined when the waters had subsided by releasing birds from...
...Dove for Nannar. Author Hill suggests that Abraham was a boy in the Sumerian city of Ur, a descendant of a Semitic people who inhabited the land before the Sumerians came. Thus he would have learned the story of the Flood, as well as that of the Tower of Babel-which sounds like a description of one of the stepped pyramids called ziggurats atop which the Sumerians built temples...