Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Heavy rains in the Appalachian hill country of eastern Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia sent some rivers rolling to their highest flood levels in a century. As the Big Sandy, Cumberland and Kentucky gushed over their banks in Kentucky (a national guardsman described "a big whooshing noise"), five people were swept to their deaths and 7,600 families fled. When they returned, their homes were gone, or wrecked by water...
Near Pikeville, a small coal center along the Big Sandy, people endured the rain and the resulting flood. Then a fire, touched off by leaking gasoline, destroyed the town library, a telephone-company building and a house. Finally, it snowed. In aptly named Hazard, Ky., Charlie Hammonds, a gas-station operator, managed to take calamity in stride. His reason: "This is the 26th time I've been flooded since I came here in 1957." At Jack's Union 76 Service Station near Sneedville, Tenn. (pop. 1,000). Owner Jack Stapleton even found cause for cheer, though the Clinch...
Fewer than 100 days after his Inauguration, Jimmy Carter is still riding on a flood tide of popularity: a Harris poll released last week showed that 67% of adult Americans are behind him. Simultaneously, however, there were growing signs that Carter was in trouble with a startling array of prominent Americans, covering a wide spectrum of backgrounds and interests. The paradox is a fascinating and perplexing aspect of the new Administration. While winning such obvious broad support among Americans as a whole, Carter's style and policies may also be alienating the leaders whose help he may need...
Brazil recognizes that America, its best customer for shoes, cannot indefinitely absorb its footwear and is now making a strenuous effort to find other markets. As a Hong Kong tex tile manufacturer says: "We know we cannot just flood the world, but we do think we should be entitled to a fair share of the annual growth...
...choreographed scenes at the beginning and the end of the show, develop insect-like personalities and the dark underside of Puck is revealed. The elaborate production has been sealed together by the people who brought The Beggar's Opera to Adams House last year. In the stage's flood of dark blue light, lie back and be wooed. Performances are tonight through Saturday at 8:15 p.m. Tickets are $2.50 and can be purchased at Holyoke Center or at the door...