Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle. His quietly persuasive argument: the analysts talk of ego defenses being torn down in a psychosis, and when this happens the already anxious patient is overwhelmed. Psychotherapy tries to restore the ego, but this is extremely difficult because the anxiety, now almost a physical entity, has unleashed a flood of physiological processes...
...time to put out 24,400 copies of a "Late City Extra" with a 450-word bulletin dropped into Page One. The Times Sunday Magazine hastily pulled a Seventh Fleet picture off its front cover, substituted one of Bulganin, Mao and Khrushchev. The Russian censors, swamped by the flood of words, let many a piece of copy slip through which ordinarily might have been spiked; e.g., A.P. reported: "Muscovites questioned at random appeared bored at the news. 'What difference does it make?' one asked. Another said: 'It's all the same thing...
LACMA also rides herd on the program itself, ever since the first show brought in a flood of complaints that a resuscitation method used on a newborn baby was obsolete. LACMA acts both as a censor and a prod to Medic. A show dealing with homosexuality was "tabled" by the doctors, but they have lifted some TV taboos, e.g., in a film about an unwed mother, NBC balked when the doctor-as he normally would-asked the girl when her last period had occurred. LACMA insisted that the word stay...
...President further cautioned against attempting to reach an immediate settlement of the expansion problem, before sufficient data has been collected. He pointed out that three or four years still remain in which to collect and weigh evidence before the rising flood of students reaches the College level...
...possibility that I might have have misinterpreted Mr. Philbrick's intent. As it stands, the inferences appear to be two: (a) that because the Soviet Union reports a large grain crop in 1954, it is ridiculous to suppose that the Yangtse River in China could have had its worst flood in history and left a great deal of suffering and hunger in its wake; (b) that the Fellowship of Reconciliation, either out of naivete or by design, appears to be more concerned with the welfare of Communists than with that of their victims. Dealing with the first item, I would...