Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Because we are strong we can afford to be generous. This is why we pay no attention to the silly intrigues of a few dozen would-be politicians and their followers." Then Franco threatened: "If they should ever disturb the realization of our heroic destiny . . . we would open the flood of blue shirts and red berets that would throw them...
...been enough. But the day may come when they feel that they cannot fulfill their calling any longer. Neither Christ nor the church can ask of a man more than he feels, in good conscience, he is able to do-then the church will allow them to go. A flood of pastors will leave for the West, and those who remain behind will suffice to keep a church of Russian proportions...
Said Stuart: "The descriptions . . . often resemble old-fashioned Communist caricatures rather than sober presentations of fact." The ambassador then proceeded to cite some sobering facts about Canada-U.S. economic relations: ¶ Rather than increasing to dangerous flood proportions, as some special pleaders claim, the flow of U.S. capital into Canada is actually receding. It was $346 million in 1953, $318 million in 1954, dropped farther in 1955. ¶ Canada's great industrial boom in recent years was neither wholly financed nor owned by U.S. investors. About 85% of the overall expansion was financed by Canadians themselves. Incoming...
...flood of frivolous attacks on state court convictions has depreciated the great writ of habeas corpus and has interfered with state judicial administration, Justice Walter V. Schaefer of the Illinois Supreme Court warned yesterday. The writ allows prisoners to challenge the legal grounds on which they are being held...
...plight of the nation's farmers, viewed from urban insularity, is generally seen as either a dull academic question or a potential trouble-maker in the November elections. Hucksters of both parties have made the "farm problem," a matter of narrow interest, using a flood of paper panaceas to obscure the real existence of a weak sector of the economy. Careless subsidy plans, log-rolling, and philosophical battle cries have replaced intelligent efforts to solve one of the nation's most important domestic problems...