Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gate, the region was a churning, chocolate sea of muck that overwhelmed scores of communities in its path and obliterated every landmark within hundreds of square miles. Around the clock, Army and Coast Guard helicopters plucked wretched, barefoot refugees from the water, leaving their homes and possessions to the floods and their livestock to hovering buzzards. Evacuees far exceeded 100,000 by week's end, and estimates of the homeless went as high as 1,000,000. The full death toll will not be known until the flood subsides, but officials had already counted 44 bodies on both sides...
Despite his miseries at the plate. Yaz played superhuman ball in the outfield, robbing the hard-hitting Cardinals of at least two more runs. After Brock, Curt Flood and Roger Maris had parlayed a single, a double and an infield out into a 1-0 advantage in the third, Yazthrzemski went to work in the next inning...
Then on the first pitch the Card's next time up, Curt Flood hit a screaming shot toward the wall. The fabulous Yaz, off with the bat's crack, leaped three feet off the ground, stuck up his glove and speared the ball backhanded before crashing to the ground. Even St. Louis announcer Harry Caray couldn't restrain himself. "Yastrzemski is clearly a super star," he gagged...
...LOUISBOSTON Brock lf Adair 2b Flood cf Jones 3b Maris rf Yastrzemski lf Cepeda 1b Harrelson rf McCarver c Scott 1b Shannon 3b Petrocelli ss Javier 2b Smith cf Maxvill ss Gibson c Gibson p Santiago...
Legerdemain of this sort is the special talent of 29-year-old Joyce Carol Oates. As she demonstrated in an earlier novel (With Shuddering Fall) and two volumes of short stories (By the North Gate, Upon the Sweeping Flood), she is a literary oddity. An upstate New York Yankee, she creates countrified characters who burn with the kind of short-fused violence and curious pride of privacy that have always been the exclusive hallmark of writers from the South...