Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first shocked reactions of Congressmen and Senators indicated that the pressure would be considerable and perhaps irresistible. Republicans were among Nixon's severest critics. Senator Mark Hatfield observed that a move to impeach could come "like a flash flood sweeping down over the pasture land." Senator Robert Packwood argued that there was "no justification" for Nixon's action. "The office of the President does not carry with it a license to destroy justice in America. His deeds are dishonorable." Predicted Freshman Congressman William H. Hudnut of Indiana: "If Nixon gives the impression he is above...
...these reasons, residents in O'Neill's eighth district must flood O'Neill's Boston office in the JFK Building with telegrams, phone calls and letters. O'Neill pays close attention to activity at his local office; a few hundred phone calls (O'Neill's number in Boston is 223-2784) will convince the majority leader that popular support exists for impeachment...
More important, it has started an unintended flood of money out of S and Ls and savings banks; depositors are pulling cash out of passbook accounts that pay only 5¼% annual interest and buying Treasury bills, bank certificates of deposit (CDs) and other investments that sometimes yield more than 9%. Through early 1973, S and Ls were taking in savings at an average net rate of more than $1 billion a month, but they suffered a net outflow in July; in August a staggering $1.2 billion was withdrawn, the third largest monthly loss on record. Since then, the situation...
...life. Seasons begin in sweltering August heat, move slowly through grim Septembers and Octobers and climax--or fizzle out altogether--around Thanksgiving. Respect and friendship are earned by how hard one hits, how much pain one can endure. A single word from a coach can evoke a sudden flood of joy or despair. For those with seasons still to come, the rest of the year is merely the off-season--football stories dominate small talk and big talk. But when the last season is played out, a truly remarkable, savagely beautiful experience is irretrievably lost, leaving only the tall tales...
Built to house a flood of World War II veterans, the Towers has seen most of its original residents leave. Those who could afford them bought their own houses, and now only the poorest and most infirm of the original tenants remain. The families that are taking their place are of a different breed. The Housing Authority estimates that 80 per cent of their applicants for places in public housing are broken families-families with one parent missing, usually the father. These people bring a host of problems which a place like Roosevelt Towers is not equipped to handle...