Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drivers are not necessarily beginners. With only 850 examiners to deal with the flood of applications for licenses (last year a record 1,345,832 applied), there is a constant backlog of a quarter-million unlicensed drivers. The L-plate army is growing. In less than two years nearly half the 2,000,000 Britons who took driver's tests flunked them, many for the second and third time. All Britain cheered last month when 39-year-old Derek Brown passed his test: he had been driving with L plates for 22 years and failed twelve previous exams...
...airlift of 1948-49. Then there were the refugees of today, a steady, hopeful stream, explaining their flight on their first afternoon of freedom. And there was Willy Brandt, the mayor, spelling out his startling theory that there may have been too many refugees, that Moscow might flood East Germany with Russians and Poles: this in .turn would make it harder than ever to achieve a free, united Germany...
...exam period has not yet begun and the library is already full. If the warm weather of last week returns, Lamont may be one of the few cool places left in the College. To stem the flood of refugees from the heat, Lamont might well check bursar's cards or, better still, install parking meters on the study cubicles. These measures would keep out outsiders, discourage nonscholars, and bring in even more money than library fines. Let the unwanted beat a path to Widener...
Ulanova displayed a mastery so complete that technique itself seemed to disappear, letting emotion flood the stage. In the first act Ulanova was a shy girl, trembling with anguish and expectation on the edge of maturity. In a remarkable series of movements, expressions and gestures, she mimed her unfolding first love, with its joys and terrors wavering through her like a fever. At first as tremulous in her movements as a butterfly fluttering from a chrysalis, she broadened her movements as the act progressed into ardently flowing figures that beautifully and simply evoked her stirring feelings. After her betrayal...
...wringing out all manner of aircraft for the design engineers. Three were naval officers (two Annapolis graduates), three from the Air Force (no West Pointers), and one was-as he put it-"a lonely marine." Obviously the selectors of the seven had remembered the separate services, and in the flood of applicants for the first trip into space, it was no problem to get good men of three uniforms...