Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First day's business was the ceremonial vote to accept the U.S. offer to join the pact's military committee, making the U.S. a full member in all but name, and loosing a flood of unsolicited praise for the U.S. Said Pakistan's Prime Minister Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy, whose country depends on the U.S. for 40% of the government's budget: "They have made no attempt to bind us to them in chains or strings, and weak though we are, negligible though we may be in military might, they have had the vision and large-heartedness...
...British economist are full members of the board), Iraq's unique agency has built, started or planned 16 dams between the snow-veined mountains of Kurdistan and the steaming shores of the Persian Gulf. It has completed two great barrages that this year caught the flood waters of the Tigris and Euphrates and led them into new $30 million lakes at Wadi Tharthar and Habbaniya. Downstream its contractors are digging drainage ditches and scooping silt from the ancient Babylonian water-distribution canals, now scheduled to be used again as in Hammurabi's time. Land under cultivation has jumped...
...made special mention of the Class of 1927 (agents Richard T. Flood, Edward H. Bailey, David R. Pokross) which has raised $106,000 since its 25th Reunion five years ago. This is the first class to raise over $100,000 in the interval between its 25th and 30th reunions...
...waiting before" presses harder than ever on the crust of conservatism that has always surrounded Harvard with tradition. For several years college administrators throughout the country have been looking with alarm at the problems facing them in the next decade, when the now legendary deluge of "war babies" will flood admissions offices with applications for college entrance...
...spring lots of tornadoes come and everyone is hoping that one will come and destroy the school. And with the tornadoes comes rain and hail which might flood the city. Then not one person will have to go to school...