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Word: flooded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smooth expanse of soft rock carved and polished by the glacier could easily be inscribed with personal data, and within no time there was a 300-ft.-long sweep of modern hieroglyphics. Last summer the first of the four-letter words appeared, to be followed by such a flood of pornographic graffiti that the better Boy Scout leaders struck Box Canyon off their lists of educational outings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Land: The Spoilers | 7/3/1980 | See Source »

...said, 'Listen, guys, I was the same type of child, only I grew up with German troops and hunger and death.' They told me to write it all down." The result: My Adult Childhood, a mosaic of young life under Nazi occupation that has brought such a flood of letters it may end up as-what else?-a movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 23, 1980 | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...five-year-old Danny hates the Overlook before he ever gets there. Danny has "the shining," the capacity to see visions of both the past and the future. Danny's imaginary friend Tony warns him about the Overlook and shows him the horrors that will flood the hotel. Danny doesn't know how to fight his visions...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Night in Shining Horror | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...moment of the explosion David Crockett, 28, a photographer for KOMO-TV in Seattle, stood on a logging road at the base of the mountain. He heard a huge roar and looked up to see a wall of mud rushing toward him. Because of the terrain, the flood divided into two streams that passed on either side of him. Seeking desperately for a way out, Crockett kept moving along the road, speaking into his sound camera to record his impressions of the scene. Said he: "I am walking toward the only light I can see. I can hear the mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God I Want To Live! | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

...Mount Katmai, in Alaska's remote Aleutian Range, belched a 15-mile flood of lava. There were no known fatalities, but it was the largest blast in North American history-ten times the magnitude of the one at Mount St. Helens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Since Vesuvius | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

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