Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having failed so ignobly to pull off a general strike in May of 1958, Spam's tiny but tightly organized Communist Party was determined that this year would be different. In the biggest flood of anti-Franco propaganda ever, they printed up hundreds of thousands of leaflets to prepare the workers to do their part when Radio Espana Independiente in Communist Prague gave the signal. To some of these leaflets they signed the names of liberal and Roman Catholic organizations that had not even been consulted. "A truly national movement!" cried the Communist radio. But when...
...basement of the Soviet embassy in Washington this week, sweating Russians worked furiously to bring some capitalist efficiency to their task: processing a flood of U.S. tourist visas for the Soviet Union. The Russians had expected some 10,000 U.S. visitors in 1959, but now the total seems headed for 15,000. Not only is Russia "the place to go" for thousands of seasoned tourists, but this summer's U.S. exhibition in Moscow is proving a strong drawing card. So great is the influx that American Express alone had a backlog of 200 visa applications last week. The once...
...this would be radical and painful therapy: Common Market membership would flood the country with industrial products cheaper and better than Spain's own : devaluation and convertibility would be hard on corrupt officials, smugglers and black-marketeers: a heavy cutback in government spending may within a month put a quarter of a million workers on the streets of Barcelona alone. Aware of the dangers-which could be political as well as economic-Ullastres told his Barcelona audience: "This is probably the worst moment through which we will pass . . . There will be a few disturbances, layoffs, reduction of production . . . increases...
Last week Ryan Reporter, house organ of Ryan Aeronautical Co., reported a solution worked out by the Douglas Aircraft Co. for use on the new DC-8 Jetliner. Loose objects on the ground are not inhaled directly by the great flood of air passing through an engine, Douglas engineers found. Instead, a vortex like a small tornado forms below and just ahead of the engine's intake. If anything loose is within its reach, the vortex lifts it up like a house in a Kansas twister. Then the main air stream grabs it and hurls it into the engine...
Murray noted with alarm the "flood of discontent and self-depreciation these days" and the "mythology of the mass media--a mythology of pride, greed, and envy." To deal with this deplorable situation, Murray urged the formation of a new mythology, to be embodied in a "truly new testament," a kind of Bible for modern times...