Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...official. The First Lady, meanwhile, continued to breakfast with Ike each morning and to see him as often as the doctors would permit. When she was away from her husband's side, Mamie spent most of her time in her own room, across the hall, meticulously answering the flood of get-well messages (at last count she had answered 11,000 letters...
...customary proletarian mufti, Red China's pudgy Chairman Mao Tse-tung, looking like a reasonably good insurance risk at his age (68), emerged from Peking to make an inspection tour along the Yellow River, where the Communists say they are undertaking monumental flood-control projects...
This year one glance was enough to tip off the jurors to what was in store. Of 35 oils hanging in the central gallery, only three (including one by the late Fernand Léger) were remotely representational. The steadily mounting flood of abstract painting, instead of subsiding, has now surged across all national boundary lines and established itself as the international style of the mid-20th century. After spending the past year combing dealers' galleries, museums and artists' studios across the U.S., Europe and Latin America, Carnegie Institute Art Director Gordon Bailey Washburn, charged with hand-picking...
...only real recourse for residents of flood-stricken towns, therefore, is to turn to the federal government for aid. While the federal disaster relief program helps considerably to finance rebuilding programs, most federal funds go to community treasuries and thence into public works projects; the individual householder receives very little direct benefit from disaster relief. Only a new form of federal aid, providing voluntary flood damage insurance, can assure individual sufferers of a clear road to economic recovery...
...disasters by spreading its coverage over a wide area and could wait for many years for losses to be paid back in premiums. The federal government, moreover, has the experienced personnel to administer such a program, as indicated by the efficiency of the Armed Forces and crop insurance plans. Flood insurance is no final answer to the complex problem of flood control, but it can help to make nature on a rampage far less terrifying...