Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lead was only 2 to 0 at the end of the first period, and up to this point Dartmouth still had a chance to show that it's near-upset of Boston College had been no fluke. But sophomore Bob Owen, playing his best game to date, started a flood of five Crimson goals in the second period with his backhander...
...kept probing back to the President's health and his future plans. The President replied: "I will say this: I myself said I would seek the advice of my trusted friends and associates and I have been busy doing it. But as that goes on there is a flood of mail and the mail generally is of one tenor only.* I am-after all, a person, no matter how many political enemies he has, does also have lots of friends and it is-they believe in him and they are very anxious to express their views...
...surface an instrument to tell it exactly where it is. Then, at its leisure in darkness and silence, far below wave action, it will open its missile chamber. The missile will tilt to the vertical. When all is ready, it will rise from the sea in a flood of flame and a cloud of steam...
...spectator wonders if he has not arrived for the Dardanelles campaign 3,000 years late. The chariot chases are breakneck things. Best of all, though, is the passage in which the colossal horse comes gliding into Troy on a churning revel, like the thought of death on the full flood of life...
...headed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology President James R. Killian Jr., to examine and report on the work of the U.S. intelligence agencies. He sent to Congress a message proposing a fiveyear, $2 billion federal aid program for public-school construction. He asked Congress to appropriate $60 million for flood relief. He accepted the resignation of Treasury Under Secretary H. Chapman Rose, who is returning to his Cleveland law practice. He welcomed back Aide Bernard Shanley, who had left the White House staff briefly during the President's illness. Shanley's main duties are to hold down...