Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down was a social swig of hard cider. "Everybody asked everybody to drink," remarked an 1830 observer. "There were drunken lawyers, drunken doctors, drunken members of Congress, drunken ministers." Today, recovered from rum and soberly situated in the middle 20th century, Vermont has begun to worry about a new flood of failings in the grim green mountains. Last year's suicide total (57) was amongst the highest per capita in the U.S. And 1957's uncompleted total may well exceed...
...heavy-lidded look. At their widest, her eyes did not appear to open as wide as a Caucasian's; half-closed, her lids showed no crease or fold running across them, and her lashes always pointed down. Like other Japanese girls, she had been impressed by the postwar flood of U.S. movies and magazines. Instead of the traditional Japanese ideal of beauty-sloe-eyed, smooth-featured, flat-chested-many of them want to be more like their Western cousins with high noses, round eyes, curly lashes and prominent busts...
...facts showed that business, moving at historically high levels, was indeed far better (see below) than business sentiment. Yet Wall Street, which likes to talk of the investor's lack of knowledge, could blame itself for much of the gloom. From brokerage offices have poured forth a flood of market letters, rumors and reports that painted the current economic picture in unwarrantedly pessimistic colors...
Vote buying and intimidation were back. Garcia assured his nomination by a flood of political bounty; Garcia buttons were handed out with 10-peso bills tucked inside (TIME, Aug. 12). In the campaign, the Nacionalistas have spent in quantities unmatched since the Liberals threw around more than $1,000,000 in public funds in 1953 (and lost). To counter the Nacionalistas' largesse, the Liberals' Presidential Candidate José Yulo has used an estimated $2,500,000 of his personal sugar fortune. Throughout the countryside, well-armed election workers were busily canvassing voters for campaign funds, with their guns...
...With the jet air age expected to begin late next year, when the first 600-m.p.h. jet transports are delivered to domestic airlines, few U.S. cities will be ready to handle either the big planes or the flood of new travelers riding in them. During the twelve months ending last March, air traffic at a dozen leading U.S. airports jumped 19%; with jets that can carry up to 140 passengers, v. 90 for the biggest piston-engine plane, traffic volume will soon rise even faster. But most cities are still dragging their heels on airport-improvement plans. "Unless some...