Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their interest was more than passing. TIME, to them, is one of their principal weapons for dealing with the flood of Communist propaganda that sweeps into their home areas from Eastern Germany - and points farther east. In the North Rhine-Westphalia area alone, reported Hans Joachim Oertel of Düseldorf, 256 Communist journals are distributed. TIME, he found, was his best rebuttal to their propaganda...
...they sleep under a roof, but live in carts, wherein children are born and the old die, in which their beds, or charpais, are always upside down. Instead of swords and spears, they make axes and sickles, but in recent years their ancient craft products, overwhelmed by a flood of cheap manufactured tools, have been less in demand. The Gadia Lohars have been facing an extinction more complete, if slower, than that offered by the Moguls...
...Mississippi, scourged by flood and frost as well as record cotton surpluses, Bolivar County Farm Agent T. Y. Williford reported: "We are probably in as bad shape as when we plowed up cotton in 1933, or even worse...
Even if tuition rates should increase at the same rate as per capita income higher incomes would encourage more people to attain college educations. But tuitions have not increased at equal rates in the past, and if this policy is not changed in the future, then the flood of applicants will increase at an even greater rate, Harris pointed...
Meanwhile, a huge bite of the company revenue goes to support a royal regime that is itself a fantastic blend of East and West, ancient and modern. The money pours in like a flash flood in a dry wadi but it flows out even faster. This year's government budget estimates a deficit of close to $60 million. Little of the huge sums that are spent trickle past the palace gates into the hands of ordinary Saudis...