Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tramp in slept-in fatigues across deep grass, mountain trails and through village kraals. In the bush, visibility is often limited to a few yards: one stick recently ambushed a guerrilla group that had been sleeping less than 50 yards away. In the present summer season, rains flood the rivers and the jungle trails that make up the infiltration routes. By July, the middle of the arid winter season, the water holes will have dried up; the soldiers will have to quench their thirst at the stagnant pools buffaloes use for wallowing. Ticks, fleas and horseflies are constant irritants...
...Wilkes-Barre after it was virtually destroyed by the raging Susquehanna River during Hurricane Agnes in 1972. After hearing about the disaster at midnight in Washington, he flew home aboard then Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird's personal helicopter, and declared: "This is going to be one Flood against another." He soon learned that the most critical need was for helicopters to rescue marooned victims. He phoned a top official at the Pentagon and bellowed: "I want those helicopters, and I want them this afternoon. Not tonight or tomorrow. You know, there are an awful lot of people running...
...days after the storm, in typically bravura fashion, he announced: "I have ordered the Army Corps of Engineers not to permit the Susquehanna to rise another inch." The river rose no further. Afterward, Flood steered about $1 billion in disaster relief to his district. No wonder, then, that a constituent described him as "the next closest thing...
Opoet, Dream like an enormous flood; Let the work of your bed Be stilled; The night Comes and shines. The earthworms are multiplying; The river Winks And I am ravished...
Arithmetic and Logic. To handle, direct and process the flood of information, the computer relies on this unit, which Babbage dubbed the mill. It is here that the computer does its number crunching and data manipulation...