Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cutoff of blood to the brain; it forms the basis of the Wurtman-Zervas theory. The two neuroscientists speculate that cells starved of oxygen as the result of strokes die and allow their stored dopamine to escape. Dopamine is normally released only in minuscule amounts, and a sudden flood of the chemical can be lethal. Excess dopamine can cause nearby blood vessels to contract, cutting off oxygen to neighboring cells and thus spreading the stroke damage. After the flood has subsided, there is a serious shortage of the dopamine; the cells killed by the stroke are no longer producing...
Then Kenny ducked into a full racer's crouch and the hurricane struck me again. With some difficulty, much like swimming a few inches back to a levee against a flood, I managed to bury the bottom of my visor against Kenny's bowed back. Barns, fences, houses, cows, trailers, bridges, gardens, signs, dogs and clotheslines flew back. A calm center within me, which had long ago abandoned the idea of bailing out, began to consider two things. One, how far would we roll if a crash occurred. And two, how fast we were going, which would explain the number...
...first four acts. Rarely varying either tempo or tone, he renders the not-so-despicable hero totally unbearable. His sudden transformation into the future husband of the victimized Fidelia is, as a result, anything but credible. Both the irony and tragedy of Manly's character are lost in a flood of rage...
After that, although Percy became a First World War Hero and a civic leader in Greenville, it was pretty much all downhill. As local chairman of the relief committee during the 1927 Mississippi River flood, he came under sharp attack from Northern black newspapers because, among other things, he forced Greenville's blacks to live on the levee and unload relief boats instead of letting them go back to their homes. Later, Percy got more criticism from Northern liberals for having the work on his plantation done by black sharecroppers...
...they continued their study of the flood of data from Mariner 10 at week's end, the champagne-sipping scientists were elated by the spacecraft's performance. They now think that Mariner may have enough fuel left when it again crosses Mercury's orbit in September to guide the ship over one of the planet's poles, which were hidden from view during last week's flyby...