Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dickey-Lincoln dam project would cost over $690 million, flood 88,000 acres of prime wilderness inhabited by thousands of deer, moose, beavers and waterfowl. It would also drown about $8 million worth of lumber and lumbering land. In addition, the inadequate water supply would seem to make it a very inefficient source of energy...
...opportunity for vengeance occurs one afternoon when attention is drawn to a "gold seam"?a flood of currency?spilling out of Moscow and into Southeast Asia. Is it bankrolling enemy operatives? Is it used to push heroin in the People's Republic of China? Is Drake Ko, an amoral Hong Kong millionaire, a conduit? Drake's brother Nelson is one of the two dozen most important men in Peking and perhaps also a Karla mole, one even more important than Haydon had been. Are the siblings estranged? Or is their relationship thicker then blood? Smiley backtracks through archives...
...higher than anything anybody had ever seen," said Davis Jackson, head of the Country Club Plaza, the sprawling downtown hotel and shopping complex. "No one had ever thought they would live long enough to see it." When the flood receded hours later, 24 were dead, 1,200 were homeless, and damage was estimated at $50 million...
Despite optimism on the consumer side, the business lobby does not concede that the Nickel Campaign cut down the early advantage they built up by inspiring an early flood of mail opposing...
Many perfectly legitimate problems have delayed construction of the mighty Dickey-Lincoln dam, a $690.3 million hydroelectric project on the St. John River in northern Maine. Among them: lack of money, environmental protests that it would flood a wilderness area and doubts about the benefit it would bring. But one threat to the project was a problem that seemed downright silly: the discovery of a few clumps of a greenish-yellow wild flower called the Furbish lousewort growing near the dam site. Because the plant, named for Botanist Kate Furbish, was not known to exist anywhere else, the dam location...