Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film triggers a flood...
Your story on abortion [NATION, Sept. 24] says that medieval theologians estimated that "the soul joined the body at the 40th day of pregnancy." Forty is a magical number. The biblical Flood lasted 40 days and 40 nights, Ali Baba had 40 thieves, and Moses wandered in the wilderness for 40 days. Suleiman died standing up, leaning on his cane. Nobody realized he was dead until 40 days later, when he finally fell...
...police filled the narrow cobbled streets around the Palais Lobkowitz in central Prague last week, checking the documents of anyone passing by the imposing building that houses West Germany's embassy. Inside, West German guards nervously scanned the garden walls. Both forces were trying to stem a small flood of East German citizens who had been pouring into the embassy compound, at one point scaling the walls to gain asylum and the hope of eventual transfer to the West. At week's end about 100 refugees were huddled inside the former Czechoslovak palace, to the embarrassment...
...caravan of 370 trucks bearing rice, clothing and medical supplies arrived last week in the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea. The delivery fulfilled North Korea's pledge to send "relief aid" to the flood-ravaged South, where heavy rains have left 207,000 homeless and caused $200 million in damage. The convoy also marked a dramatic break in the history of bitterness between the two countries, which have had virtually no dealings with each other since the end of World...
...efforts to dump the property entirely--fall to offer reassurance that their explanation is entirely on the level. The forest was the source of another major controversy in 1973 when Consolidated Edison, which had had its eye on the forest since the mid-1960s, unsuccessfully sought to buy and flood 340 acres of Black Rock as part of the later abandoned Storm King Mountain hydroelectric power plant. Harvard appointed a committee to look into whether the land should be sold and, in January 1973, which drew up a report detailing the potential environmental nightmares which Storm King would have created...