Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...north and south poles, which are not protected by the magnetic field. Such changes on a worldwide basis, the scientists say, might cause lush valleys to become barren wastes, deserts to bloom, icecaps to grow and cover the land, or to melt and raise sea levels enough to flood coastal cities...
...fashioned certificates entirely. Last week N.Y.S.E. President Robert W. Haack promised to do just that. "We are going to automate the stock certificate out of business by substituting a punch card," he said. "We just can't keep up with the flood of business unless...
...announcement loosed a flood of excitement. Conspiracy theories took wing like a fallout of finches. Barry Goldwater I-told-you-so-ed: "Romney was nothing more than a stalking-horse for Rockefeller." Some seers deduced that Rockefeller had stabbed Romney the previous week by admitting that he would accept a draft. Others whispered that it was a twin double cross: Romney quitting early enough to wreck Rockefeller's timetable in retaliation for Rockefeller's supposed duplicity. No one, of course, could substantiate anything, and the speculation was subsiding as the shock wore...
Deeply Disturbed. Even though non-whites account for only 2% of Britain's population, Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Laborites bowed to mounting public pressure and rammed emergency legislation through Parliament to shut off the flood of Asians from East Africa. The British have become increasingly concerned about the thousands of Asians entering the country each month (v. only about 500 a month in former years) as a result of Kenya's intensified job and economic discrimination against them. Under the new law, Britain will admit a fixed total of 1,500 Asian household heads a year...
With that, Levin sat back and braced for a flood of criticism. In fact, he received more mail on the column than on anything else he had written in his eleven years in journalism, but he found his 450 letters running 3 to 1 in support of his position. Last week he mused over the reaction in a column for the International Herald Tribune. "We can now firmly discount the myth that practically nobody in Britain understands and supports the American stand over Viet Nam," he wrote...