Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Virtually unnoticed by the press in the flood of first day Senate bills rests an outline of new rules for committee investigations. Throughout the last few years the actions of several notorious committees have shown that the fine print of a few procedural rules are needed to halt the two-inch headlines of unrestrained chairmen. The abuses of McCarthy, Velde, and Recce, among others, are so well known--holding one-man hearings unknown to other committee members, summoning witnesses under false pretenses, restricting the full advice and support of witness' counsel--that the new bill of Senator Thomas Hennings deserves...
...near-tropical bottoms of the Rio Grande, an unusual army of 8,000 or more hunters scoured the continent last week. Theirs was a gentle but rugged sport: they were afield from dawn till dark, slogging "Over hill, over dale,/ Thorough bush, thorough brier/Over park, over pale,/Thorough flood, thorough fire . . ." in pursuit of their quarry. When the chase was over, the hunters had no trophies to show, for they did their hunting with nothing more deadly than binoculars and telescopes. They were devotees of the flourishing sport of bird watching, and last week, with its annual counts...
Then all at once 1) a flood hits the plantation. 2) the bandits attack the mine, 3) a box of dynamite blows them all to guacamole, 4) an avalanche deflects the course of the river, 5) a tropical storm breaks, and 6) a rainbow shines through it, arching over 7) the Final Clinch...
Bush, who later said he was "definitely not talking about Harvard," deplored the lower standards in education resulting from the "flood of students" pouring into colleges and universities...
Ulich quoted several of the points made in the magazine article to back up his condemnation. He said that the statement of "an appalling growth of illiteracy. it all levels, even in the gradual scalpels," the confirms of the riding flood of students" to the "barbarian invasions." And the remarks about "an army of misfits," were all either unsubstantial or ambiguous...