Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remainder of the game consisted of a struggle of the defenses and a flood of penalties--ten in the contest overall. Eliot, who according to Gallito had "No doubt the toughest team we've played," contained the South backfield and prevented any further scoring drives...
...some 50 American companies have set up small but bustling offices in Peking. The throngs of arriving American businessmen, intermingling with the flood of foreign tourists, have made hotel rooms in Peking as scarce, and as expensive, as old jade. If any delegations arrive without confirmed space, they sometimes have to wait for hours while their hosts dispatch messengers to various hotels to snap up rooms as they become vacant. In the coffee shop of the Peking Hotel, the only such Western-style watering hole in town, businessmen often gather to chew over deals in progress and grouse about prices...
...question which was often put 60 years ago: What would Jesus do? Support a new round in the thermo-nuclear race to Armageddon; favor capital punishment for the poor which excludes presidents who are Vietnam war criminals; self-righteously oppose abortaion and open the door to a flood of the unwanted to fill prisons and welfare folls; legally and otherwise harass homosexuals and lesbians who really are harming no one? What would Jesus do? His enemies said he was a wine-bibber, glutton, a friend to prostitutes and tax collectors! Henry Ratliff
...floodwaters. In the inundations of the past few weeks, after the long drought and heat wave, West Texans stood on bridges over the rivers, over the arroyos and washes, raptly watching the gushing brown waters. So what if a pickup truck or stray livestock went pinwheeling away on the flood? The wilting cotton in fields to the east-some of it, at least-would revive and make it to market after all. The sparse grama and buffalo grass that sheep and cattle had been browsing, almost a blade at a time, would, by West Texas standards, flourish. No wonder that...
They tell the story in the S.E.C. that Bryant has a game plan for a hurricane in the first quarter, a flood in the second, a drought in the third and an eagle swooping down to block a field goal in the fourth. Reminded of the tale, Bryant chuckles, but does not deny it. "Well," the voice rumbles, "we do try to be prepared...