Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More Outgoing. There were some anxious days, though, she confides, during the flood of criticism that followed her candid observations on premarital affairs and pot on CBS's 60 Minutes. The outrage was particularly violent among conservatives, whom her husband is courting. Then a pro-Betty backlash began to develop. Signs supporting the First Lady appeared in every crowd on the President's travels; his audiences broke into applause at the mention of her name. Pollster Louis Harris sampled the public and declared, "Betty Ford has now become one of the most popular wives of a President...
...they fell to their knees and prayed outside the outpost, workmen hastily erected a triumphal arch on the previously unmarked boundary; atop it were Moroccan flags and huge portraits of Hassan. After moving into the Sahara in a great human flood a half-mile abreast, the marchers soon narrowed into a column eight to ten people wide and began raggedly shuffling down the single-lane asphalt road in the direction of Aaiūn, Sahara's capital. A huge paratrooper distributed paperback copies of the Koran, which the marchers waved as they chanted, "Allah akbar [God is great...
Britain's big hope remains a flood of oil wealth from under the North Sea in the 1980s. To dramatize it, Queen Elizabeth last week ceremonially pressed a button permitting oil from the first major field to flow into Britain. To muddle through until then, Wilson last week announced a program of aid to 30 industries selected for their promise of growth-but failed to say which ones they will be, whether the aid will consist of subsidies or loans or how much cash the government will put up. Until such details are spelled out, the program is little...
...also the Joe McCarthy of heterosexuality who looks for gays under every bed, a man who professes to love woman but whose opinions reveal a lover of the Vic torian idea of Woman, and a Jeremiah who sees the world ending in nuclear war or a fecal flood of pollution...
With a womanliness that is more maternal than sexual, Hopkins is most convincing when she evokes the fire and flood of up-tempo gospel numbers. But she is no blues singer. When neither love nor liquor could quench Bessie's misery, her harsh sounds of loneliness could bring an entire audience to tears. Bessie sang from pain, Linda sings from joy. She cannot crush her optimism. Hopkins ain't Bessie, it is true. She is, nonetheless, a champ...