Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks Germany has had orders to play down all forms of anti-Semitism in view of the flood of tourists expected for the winter Olympics (see p. 37). After the murder of Nazi Gustloff there was no holding the Nazi Press. Roared Julius Streicher's Frankische Tageszeitung: "The assassination of Gustloff is another in the long series of Jewish ritual murders which began with the slaughter of the Aryans by Jews thousands of years ago and is now celebrated annually in the feast of Purim...
Hail! doughty men of Dunster, men of the blood-capped tower of Dunster, have thy flood-lamps burnt out? Replace them! Replace them! Let not thy mind be dimmed by any weak blue haze. And ye able men of Adams, men with hearts of gold, rise above the ethereal blue and shine! Even though ye be a House divided, ye cannot fall. Turn on the lights. Assert thyselves! Ho! eager men of Eliot, ye Green Knights of metrical romance, where is thy chivalry, thy honor? Gawain is thy peer, no blue haired fairy of Pinochio. Light up! Light...
...with honest but inept Ras Desta Demtu, son-in-law of Haile Selassie, Graziani took a long chance, cut a whole brigade of motorized cavalry loose from their base, sent them dashing north on half rations through some of the richest country in Ethiopia. Tactfully to stem the flood of personal publicity about Benito Mussolini's aviator sons, one of the first orders of Marshal Badoglio on taking command last November stated that henceforth neither the names of officers nor the movement of troops would be mentioned in dispatches. For his friend, Marshal Badoglio broke that rule last week...
...Republican "perversion of the facts," "outright lies." "foul whisperings." "We must work." continued Boss Farley, "for a victory so overwhelming as to make it plain forever that democracy is the faith of our people and that loyalty to a great President cannot be broken down even by a flood of money...
Water pipes bursting caused a minor flood throughout C entry of Holworthy on New Year...