Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ground in July than at Christmastime. Then, in a meteorological freak, a cold air mass from the north collided over the Alps with a moisture-laden warm air mass from the south, and the resultant rain and snow were more than any river system could handle. The worst Danube flood since the 16th century...
When their fellow Europeans left them in peace, the people of Flanders, Celtic in origin, were kept busy fending off the onslaughts of a still more implacable foe-the grey, pounding rollers of the North Sea, which time and again broke over Flanders' beaches to flood the low-lying flatlands behind. From earliest times the people of Flanders were forced so often to seek refuge with their northern neighbors, the Frisians, that they came at last to be known as Vlaming, the Frisian word for refugee. Their land was Vlandria, land of the refugees...
...that the Federal Government, instead of going it alone, will act as a partner of state, local and private interests in building big new hydroelectric projects. Local funds will pay for the power features of the dams; the Federal Government will pay for whatever share is allotted to irrigation, flood control and land reclamation...
...long-range plan to restore the Biblical green of the Tigris-Euphrates, if only its restless people and its turbulent politicos will wait for its fruition. By turning the Wadi Tharthar (dry river bed) into a reservoir to sequester the Tigris-Euphrates overflow in floodtime, the annual drought-flood cycle will be controlled and Iraq's irrigated area doubled. It is being financed out of the country's oil royalties ($140 million last year...
Many do both. In Boston, dealers offer toasters, trips to Bermuda, gold watches, electric ranges or TV sets with each new sale. In other cities, dealers promise trade-ins of $500 or more for anything customers can drive, push or shovel onto their lots, flood newspapers with ads offering wonderful-sounding deals that often turn out to be phony. Sample: $195 down for a 1954 Plymouth, payments of only $44 per month for 24 months. What the ads do not say is that the 24th payment is a whopping...