Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retirement of Justice William O. Douglas, then because of the complex controversy over campaign spending, the Justices spent all last week in a confused and unsuccessful attempt to adjourn for the summer. The court's ancient print shop was running overtime to keep up with the last-minute flood of opinions, estimated at 1,000 pages' worth. The pressure may in part explain generally poor reviews of the court's work. "As a whole," said the University of Chicago's Phillip Kurland, "this year's opinions have not been those a law professor would find...
...narrow tribe of men ... No: our blood is as the flood of the Amazon, made up of a thousand noble currents all pouring into one. We are not a nation so much as a world...
These are indeed the literary times that try men's souls. And the end is not yet in sight. For the summer reader and sunshine patriot unwilling to drown in the steady flood of Bicentennial books but still eager to come to grips with his country's past, TIME offers these suggestions, some old, some...
...illustrated by Bell's drawings?drawings so explicit that many subscribers have clipped them out of their volumes and destroyed them. Equally explicit is a drawing of Noah's ark, accompanied by elaborate calculations on the space needed for the animals' food. The date of the Flood is firmly fixed...
Bonnie Angelo's final week with Idaho Senator Frank Church was no kind of show at all. He was haunted by the tragic flood in his home state. "Even his plane was wrecked by a runaway airport-maintenance cart in Cleveland," says Angelo, "and a telephone strike prevented him from learning the bad voting results...