Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Weather Service reports that the "flood potential" is high in an area covering western New York and Pennsylvania and extending into most of West Virginia, parts of Ohio and the northeastern tip of Kentucky. Much of that region lies beneath a blanket of snow that is six inches or more thick. Says Herb Lieb, a spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: "It's like a great, frigid lake, ready to run during a sudden thaw. We could have the makings of some real flood disasters...
After Penn had opened the flood gates and McDonald had swabbed the IAB hardwood box scoring 13 of his team's first 15 points in the half, Harvard drifted along aimlessly, rather like a shipwreck mired in the Sargasso...
...full damage to the orange crop will not be known for several weeks. Unlike much of the frigid U.S., Florida's crop growers would actually like the chilly weather to continue. A sudden flood of warm sunshine would accelerate the rotting of damaged fruit and increase the loss far beyond the $125 million already estimated. "All we need is a few days in the 80s," says Grower Karst, "and then you'll see a real disaster...
...that, the book succeeds. What it lacks in depth and style, it makes up in sheer power. The seemingly endless flood of names and numbers, the innumerable tales of heroism and cowardice, the continuous demonstrations of the storm's savagery, all add up to a compelling narrative, a hymn to the brute force of nature. The scenes of hundreds swimming through storm waves in downtown Providence, of thousands fighting back flood waters in New London, Conn., of train crews outracing deadly tidal waves and of desperate sailors straining to keep their 1000-ton vessel from from running aground on inland...
That was undoubtedly asking too much. With gallows wit, Sorensen remarked: "Well, Gary Gilmore and I..." He told TIME New York Bureau Chief Laurence Barrett: "As someone said to me this morning, a lot of dirty little streams flowed together to make this flood. There was the extreme right, the Kennedy haters, the Carter haters. The smokescreen reasons-outright lies and falsehoods-masked the real opposition. To boil it down to one sentence, people felt that an outsider with my beliefs should not head that agency...