Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hopes to recede at least partly into the shadows. By being so exposed to public scrutiny, it is vulnerable to its foreign enemies. Agency supporters hope the new Congress will pass a bill to exempt the CIA from the Freedom of Information Act, which has produced a flood of queries from outsiders, many of whom do not wish the CIA well. Says an intelligence agency official: "There's almost nothing that you can put on a piece of paper that isn't subject to disclosure. You just don't pass things on officially any more...
...time of lights, yes, but also of sounds-sounds that flood in to reassure and delight. Outdoors, bells ringing in church steeples and in the hands of Volunteers of America Santas, organ music at skating rinks, the slash of sharp blades on crisp ice. At home, crackling fires and, if it has snowed, the stamping of feet as friends come in from the cold. Much later, out of the silent indoor darkness, the unmistakable soft tinkle and pop when an ornament falls off the tree. Above all, there is the joyous sound of people singing. Across the nation this week...
...Thirteen Clocks, just as, a decade before, Oxford Don J.R.R. Tolkien had written The Hobbit, and before him, another Oxonian, Lewis Carroll, had produced the Alice books. But seldom have parents and children been offered such a multitude of first-rate works (see box) along with the customary flood. Such volumes are candidates for two librarians' awards of growing importance in the industry: the Randolph J. Caldecott Medal, named for a prominent 19th century illustrator and given "for recognition of the most distinguished American picture book for children"; and the John Newbery Medal, named after the 18th century printer...
...stage of Vanderbilt's Underwood Auditorium, simultaneously slicked up and rumpled in his Sunday best, he could pass for a stranger who got lost on his way to the Grand Ole Opry, Nashville's other landmark. His mouth has the patient downturn of one who has endured flood and drought, and can survive this occasion too. When he speaks to the overflow audience, resolutely ignoring the mike, his parched hills-and-hollows drawl has the rasp of red dust in the throat on a July afternoon...
...days earlier had killed 84 people and injured more than 700. Though the costs of the damage to the 26-story hotel have not yet been figured, MGM officials do not expect to reopen the building until July. As MGM was hit with the first of a potential flood of lawsuits, a $250 million claim from a group of Mexican tourists who lost 15 of their number, a few answers were beginning to emerge...