Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conference's success, there was a prior agreement that it would concentrate on humanitarian solutions and avoid, as much as possible, political recriminations. This was done primarily to ensure the presence of Viet Nam, whose policies of brutal repression and wholesale expulsions have been responsible for the flood of refugees. Arriving in Geneva, Viet Nam's unctuous Deputy Foreign Minister Phan Hien pledged his country's "full cooperation" at the conference, provided that "our national sovereignty will be respected and financial help extended...
...latest flood of information from these Jovian satellites would have thoroughly awed the great Italian Scientist Galileo, who discovered them 369 years ago. Moving at speeds approaching 45,000 m.p.h., the 1,800-lb. spacecraft swept by Callisto, the oldest, outermost and apparently smoothest of the Galilean moons...
...Kennedy's performance since 1969. Perhaps, though it is hard to know, he has matured and sobered. Certainly he has worked hard and competently as a Senator. Another part of the solution may be that we are more cynical about the conduct of politicians--Watergate, Koreagate, Wayne Hayes, Daniel Flood, Charles Diggs and their ilk have increased our awareness of the moral failings of our leaders. A few years of such revelations have weakened the shock value, however...
...films, he casts a wiser eye on the cold was suppression of communism and the rigid posturing of the Church. Sometimes the newsreels do blend into the fiction easily--Maguire's steadfast moralism shows better against the undeniable portrait of the fifties on real film. Assigned to film a flood, Maguire and his young cameraman grope their way into the disaster area at night. A newsreel by the competition, Newsco, introduces us to the scene. In a fairly believable sequence, Maguire's assistant drowns. His death plays on the marquees to sell the newsreel...
...find a way to stop the ruling from going into effect this week, the streets of the town that describes itself on billboards as GOD'S SQUARE MILE OF HEALTH AND HAPPINESS will look much like those of any other seaside resort. The future, as envisioned by Harold Flood, president of the Camp Meeting Association: "Roller skaters and bicyclists, and even cars on Sunday...