Word: flooded
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Leaders of the Guard's Washington-based lobby, the National Guard Association, are quick to deny both the accuracy and relevancy of this image; they recently spent $50,000 on a series of full-page newspaper ads to hail their own importance in time of "flood, fire, war, or riot." The Guard is surely important in numbers: there are 418,500 members of the Army National Guard and 82,700 Air National Guardsmen. By act of Congress, they make up the primary reserve of the U.S. Army and Air Force. Each year, the U.S. Government puts up roughly...
...formula for a con glomerate. The key was Cope Allman, a down-and-out Birmingham maker of brass bedsteads, which he bought for its major asset: a stock-exchange list ing. By floating new issues and a lot of publicity, Matchan was able to finance a flood of plants beyond England (where his company now accounts for 90% of lipstick-case output) to France (100%), Australia (80%) and elsewhere. With other companies (in printing, plastics, metalworking, warehousing) coming in along the way, Cope Allman's sales have multiplied more than a hundredfold in a decade...
Brock has run at will on the Red Sox pitchers and catchers. He steals bases, provokes throwing errors and rattles teams. He led away and Santiago gave up a single to Curt Flood. Then the Rajah stepped to the plate. Roger Maris--the guy who broke the Babe's record...
Maris cracked a double, driving in Brock and Flood, moved to third on a long fly and scored himself on Tim McCarver's single. The Sox were already dead, but Julian Javier and Dal Maxvill chipped in singles to rescue McCarver, running the count...
...more modest level, the district is annexing land in Chicago suburbs to build small flood basins. These will only begin use about 20 days a year, Bacon says, and can be used for playgrounds the rest of the year. The project raises an eerie image of a little league game, postponed because the diamond is under 15 feet of water...