Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...silver-haired Majority Leader Robert Byrd, ready to address the crowded chamber. After three months' tireless, tenacious work on behalf of the Panama Canal treaties, he was in a mood for Shakespearean rhetoric. "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune," he declared. "The Rubicon of decision on the treaties is now to be crossed...
Thus, in a show of defiance toward outsiders who have criticized one of their own, citizens of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and the Wilkes-Barre Lions Club last week honored Democratic Congressman Daniel J. Flood as their "Citizen of the Year." Not mentioned, of course, during the long evening of affectionate oratory at the Gus Genetti Hotel ballroom was the uncomfortable fact that the dapper 74-year-old legislator is a prime target of a federal influence-peddling investigation. Indeed, coincidentally on the eve of the dinner, the Justice Department released an affidavit in which David Marston, the former U.S. Attorney...
Everyone else stuck to celebrating Flood's services to his constituents during his 30 years in Congress. At the beginning of the program, the lights were turned out and the diners lit hundreds of matches to show how Flood had "restored light" to Wilkes-Barre in 1972 by securing more than $1 billion in federal aid to repair the damage caused by Hurricane Agnes. Said Flood, who sported a green carnation in his buttonhole in honor of St. Patrick's Day: "I have done my best, in the best way I know how, to provide whatever service...
...Vilcabambans exaggerated their ages, Leaf believes, in hopes that the fountain-of-youth publicity would bring a flood of tourist dollars. Indeed, the Ecuadorian government was influenced by the influx of scientists and tourists to step up development of the area, and a Japanese group has announced plans to build a health spa and longevity research center there. But it will take more than a sampling of the Vilcabambans' vaunted regimen of hard work, low-calorie and low-animal-fat diet and high-altitude living to extend the normal life span. Concedes Leaf: "This lifestyle, although it kept them...
...Wallop has persisted with hundreds of questions. How, he asks, could Civiletti not have been aware of the details of Marston's investigations, particularly the fact that the targets included two Pennsylvania Congressmen, Joshua Eilberg and Daniel Flood? Civiletti said he had never even heard of Flood until recently. Wallop was incredulous. "Senator. I have no idea who three-fourths of the Congressmen are," said Civiletti wryly...