Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Larry Flood sent Winthrop back into the lead briefly, but David Dearborn soon tied it up once more for Lowell. Dearborn scored again shortly thereafter following a scramble in front of the Winthrop cage, but Newell matched this a moment later. The remaining minutes produced much furious play, but no further goals and the game ended in a 3-3 deadlock...
...modern earthquakes go (100,000 perished in the Tokyo-Yokohama area in 1923), it was no great shakes: it killed probably no more than 15,000 people out of a population of about 275,000. But to its contemporaries all over Europe, it was the greatest disaster since the flood...
...DISTANT DRUM (500 pp.)-Charles Bracelen Flood - Houghton Mlfflin...
...value of everything and the price of almost nothing. They spout dialogue like a Wall Street high-speed ticker, but the quotations mean less. At their best they are faulty reproductions of two old masters, Fitzgerald and Marquand. At their worst they share what 27-year-old Novelist Flood (whose 1953 novel. Love Is a Bridge, was much overpraised) seems to share with many another young writer these days-tired blood...
...convey the mellowness of time passing, Author Flood goes in relentlessly for air-cooled, clip-fed flashbacks. He has a hostly urge to escort the reader to the best schools, streets, shops and restaurants, like a kind of fictional branch of the A.A.A. Persistently understated and overbred, A Distant Drum belongs to the Forest Lawn of American writing where the cosmetician's art skillfully mimics but cannot summon life...