Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...billion has been spent since 1944, when the Army Engineers and the Interior Department teamed up in the Pick-Sloan plan. Overall, the plan calls for an outlay of another $9 billion in the next 50 to 75 years, for a total of 137 dams, which would provide flood control and irrigation for 10 million acres of land in ten states, and have a capacity of 3,200,000 kw. The next dams, if Congress approves, are to be started at Glen Canyon and Bridge Canyon on the Colorado River...
Obviously, this newspaper can no longer hide behind its Plympton St. indifference. No longer can it evade responsibilities. And so, President Pusey and Director Bolles, we implore: send Dean Bender to Hawaii, Coach Ulen to Australia, flood the Lampoon, do anything to save Yale swimming...
Last August the Reader's Digest published an article co-authored by Methodist Zelley about the victim of a train wreck who, given almost no chance to live, rallied to eventual recovery while his church congregation was praying for him. The flood of mail that resulted opened Zelley's eyes to the fact that vast numbers of ordinary churchgoers were being deprived of the "healing touch of Christ...
When the Lampoon's Great Hall became vulnerable to seasonal showers, and editors began to wear galoshes in the building, the more perspicacious Poonsters decided the roof was probably leaking. In an attempt to divert a disastrous spring flood, editors are pushing workers to their utmost. The original tiles are thrown at passers-by with reckless abandon, and now cold, dull slates are replacing the expensive Flemish tile roofing...
...Pensions, not passions, are to blame. Widows of public servants and war widows get a pension ranging from $24 for the wife of a streetcar driver to $80 for the wife of a field marshal-but the money stops if the woman marries again. The result has been a flood of what the Church calls "pension concubines." Laymen prefer such gentle euphemisms as "life companions." But however tolerant the neighbors, many Catholic concubines are unhappy about being cut off from the sacraments of the Church...