Word: flooded
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...living above clay, rather than above chalk." The book never quite recovers from these tributary explorations, but like the Thames, Ackroyd flows on. Once he's on the terra firma of London's recorded history - the troves of which he is a voracious plunderer - he is in full flood. The fancy word for his approach is psychogeography, a philosophical attempt to reimagine the life of cities that was dreamed up by France's Situationists in the 1950s and dusted off in recent years by Ackroyd and other writers for whom chronology and factual detail take a back seat to analogy...
...crushing blow to Microsoft, which has engaged in a bitter nine-year wrangle with the Commission. But the ruling also confirms the role of the Commission, which had staked its reputation as an antitrust regulator on the case. A defeat would have undermined its authority and risked a flood of court appeals against every Commission decision...
...This was a day of remembrance, yes, but not really a day of grieving. Unlike the flood of despair that poured forth in 1997, this time around there was barely a tear. Along the pavement towards Guards Chapel, some stared off into the distance, while others warbled to the hymns piped out over loud speakers from inside the service. Done with humming, "The Lord's My Shepherd," Londoner John Santos fondly remembered "an outstanding woman with a common touch." Showing up today, he said, was simply to make sure that "won't be forgotten...
...Halo game, the Master Chief crash-lands on a strange space artifact, a planet that's shaped like a ring instead of a sphere and known as Halo. There he slugs it out in a running three-sided battle with Covenant troops and a monstrous, mutating race called the Flood, which happens to be imprisoned there. He also learns about a mysterious and ancient race called the Forerunners, which built Halo...
News of Cornucopia's report card traveled quickly; Kastel received a flood of e-mails and phone calls with tips. He developed a network of what he calls "intelligence officers," including staffers at organic dairy farms and supermarkets, as well as ordinary consumers...