Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fourth District. The farm vote is decisive there, and Christopher was a tenant farmer for 21 years before scraping together enough money to make a down payment on his own place. Even the elements have conspired against Hillelson. Says Christopher: "We've been plagued by one year of flood, three years of drought and two years of Benson...
Eugene S. Wilson, Director of Admissions at Amherst outlined six possible answers to the steadily increasing flood of applications from students who "won't take yes for an answer." These ranged from a return to a demand by the colleges for a 1-2-3 preference list from the student, to a clearing house system...
...Rain & Flood. The Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio Rivers went over their banks as the storm made an evening passage, northbound, through central Pennsylvania. In and near Wheeling, W. Va., a city of 58,000 built partly on an island in the Ohio, 2,400 families had to leave their homes while others moved furniture to upper floors and waited it out. Inevitably, in upstate New York, the hurricane blew down a theater marquee with signs reading, GONE WITH THE WIND. Felling trees, collapsing roofs and downing wires, the winds brought death to 82 persons and wrecked more than half...
Last Truckloads. As Communist military police with gold stars on their helmets mounted guard in the city, the last truckloads of Foreign Legionnaires clattered across the mile-long Doumer Bridge over the flood-swollen Red River to join the rest of the French Viet Nam garrison 60 miles southeast at the port of Haiphong. There the French may stay till May, when under the Geneva agreements they must withdraw further south, below the Geneva dividing line at the 17th parallel, and leave all of north Viet Nam's rich rice bowl to the Reds...
...Elgin Hour, Massa Robert Cummings tried valiantly to save his old plantation from a flood, keep his ex-waitress wife at home, and bail out his amoral brother-in-law who had a tendency to shoot upstate troopers. On NBC's Lux Video Theater, there was plenty of hysteria mixed in with the wisteria as Massa Zachary Scott kept mooning about the veranda of his columned home while trying to make up his mind between a daughter of the Old South and a Northern hussy. On Robert Montgomery Presents, Paul McGrath played a Yankee who couldn't choose...