Word: flooded
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...sleepless end to a restless week. Day by day, people wrestled with a rising fear that a threshold had been crossed, that we had entered a world where Congress is evacuated and lawmakers discuss the use of tactical nuclear weapons and the tanks roll into Bethlehem and healthy people flood hospitals out of fear they have been exposed to a plague...
Chen Jinchang lives with two women, three coffins and the certainty that one day the Yangtze River will flood his simple mud-walled house. But to a barge-towman who spent most of his years in the westernmost of the Three Gorges in central China, straining against ships' ropes of braided bamboo, this looming disaster is relative. "I used to pull boats through there 25 times a month," says the 73-year-old, pointing from his doorway to Qutang Gorge, where the Yangtze rushes between towering limestone cliffs...
...Noted "You are a rotten seed like the son of Noah ... And the flood will engulf you like it engulfed him." You are a rotten seed like the son of Noah ... And the flood will engulf you like it engulfed...
Joseph P. Flood ’04 and Meredith B. Osborn...
...flood prevented students from returning to their rooms for homework or to save their personal possessions...