Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flood of official rhetoric in the last four days invoking Martin Luther King's non-violence to choke potential riots has obscured the edge of the man's philosophy and the distinctiveness of his achievement. King was always a militant--his intent was to expose the white viciousness with which his non-violence was met. And so his assassination was not truly a shock; nor should the country sanctimoniously pretend not to understand why this man's death has provoked new bursts of despair and anger from the ghetto...
They make a very odd trio, indeed. Lot is impotent, a transvestite, and facing imminent death from TB. Myrtle is a sometime prostitute, and Chicken is a cut below Neanderthal man. A flood is in the offing, and Chicken gets his nickname from the fact that in a previous flood, he climbed to the roof with a few chickens and subsisted by biting their heads off and drinking their blood. Who will drink whose blood before this latest flood? Chicken is furious at losing the property to Lot's wife, and he has in his wallet a previously signed...
...increase until the Administration has slashed nonmilitary spending, President Johnson two weeks ago agreed to a reduction of as much as $9 billion in his budget. Such a cut would affect foreign aid, the space program, the supersonic jet, and some or all of $1.5 billion in the highway, flood-control, and federal building programs...
...only get a small part of flood water in this area normally," Stokes said, "and the water from the present storm has been successfully reduced by our equipment...
Widener Library did report a foot of water at "D" level, however. Buildings and Grounds is "taking all the steps it can to be ready for the predicted cresting of the Charles," the spokesman said. B&G has already increased its supply of flood control equipment, such as pumps and sandbags...