Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charles River Dam, which went into operation last February, will prevent more slat water from entering the basin. The dam will also provide better flood control than the former dam upstream at the Boston Museum of Science...
Though the Fusco brothers, Greg Olson, et al might disagree, on Friday and Saturday more grace will flood the Bright Hockey Center than the rink has seen all winter. World silver medalist Dave Santee, U.S. pairs champs Kitty and Peter Carruthers, and several other world-class skaters will convene there for the twelfth annual Evening of Champions...
...success stories that inspired the flood of capital are legion and legendary. France's Baron Marcel Bich, for example, bought the Waterman Pen Corp. in 1958 for $2.5 million and built it into the flourishing Bic Pen Corp. with annual sales of $200 million...
...relations event in 1913, when he helped the actor Richard Bennet produce the play "Damaged Goods," which dealt with sex education and the dangers of syphilis. By winning the support of several prominent New York socialites, Bernays turned the show into a smash hit on Broadway and generated a flood of social concern over the dangers of the disease...
Bernays thrives upon the constant flood of visitors to his white clapboard mansion on Lowell Street in Cambridge. Always a gathering place for diverse individuals, the Bernays home is like a laboratory for experimentation in the theory of democratic pluralism. Bernays and his "twenty-four hour a day companion in married life," the late Doris Fleischman, would summon at once "a union head, a colonel in the army, the editor of a left-to-center paper and an artist." "Conformity is a sin," according to Bernays, "even at parties...