Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full two months ago, when the first allegations of Spiro Agnew's involvement in an old-fashioned kickback scheme appeared, his political future had ended. The fire-breathing orator, whose appeals for law and order and tighter control of the press had so frightened liberals, was reduced by a flood of corruption charges to a trapped...
...visited children's hospitals, kissing crippled babies in front of the TV cameras. She flew over the flood-ravaged pampas in order to dramatize the need for relief. During the campaign she made an eight-stop tour of the north. She even managed to enlist the support of her most vocal enemies, the party's left-wing youth. They organized a huge crowd for her at Buenos Aires' Aeroparque airport, which significantly cheered both Peron and Isabelita. In all, it was precisely the kind of stumping Evita made famous among the descamisados (shirtless ones), who loved...
...course, next week brings another writer, and the only reliable prediction is that there will be a comparable amount of handholding and the same flood of embarassing displays of emotion. In the coming episode, the girl's tragic flaw is that she is too rich. What...
ZONING RULES should be updated and upgraded in almost every community. Instead of arbitrarily dividing up a township, local governments should analyze their growth rates and coordinate them with future capital-spending programs. In addition, they should forbid the development of flood plains and other environmentally fragile-or dangerous-areas...
...chopper spiraled down from its 4,500-ft. cruising altitude, darted over the flood-swollen Mekong toward a riverbank landing spot. Cambodian soldiers sucking Buddha amulets for luck leaped from the helicopter, lugging cases of food and ammo as they sprinted for shelter. As I jumped out of my seat and sloshed through knee-deep water toward the shore, insurgents began firing at us: the pilot had ill-advisedly put us down in a no-man's land between the two forces. We were lucky...