Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Representative Hamilton Fish's attempt to stem the Administration's interventionist flood with his stubborn dam of isolation was swept away in formal debate by the onslaught of William Y. Elliott, noted Gov. 1 professor, who charged that Fish was a "tool or dupe" of the Nazis...
John Wesley started it. Back in the 18th Century, when British preachers stayed put and theological tomes were bulky, expensive and dull, he revolutionized religion by sending his ministers on circuit and reaching the masses with a flood of books that were small, cheap, popularly written. He supported himself through publishing, cleared $150,000 to spread his cause. Not all the 400 books he wrote or published were religious-one was Primitive Physick, a book of home remedies (example: "The Head Ake: Apply to each Temple the thin yellow Rind of a lemon, newly pared off") that went through more...
...Bucharest and Stockholm, it was reported that the great $110,000,000, 140-foot Dnieper Dam near Zaporozhe had been blown up by the retreating Russians. The step would be logical, since the highway atop the dam was one of the best bridges across the river, and since the flood below would reinforce the river as a scarp against the Nazis...
...mere spasms of his pride and lust for domination can condemn two or three millions-perhaps it may be many more-of human beings to speedy and violent death. . . . Ah, but this time it was not so easy. . . . For the first time Nazi blood has flowed in fearful flood. Perhaps a million and a half, perhaps two millions of Nazi cannon fodder have bit the dust on the endless plains of Russia...
...supply) section of the General Staff.* Although he has been in the Army since 1908, Gene Reybold, unlike many an engineer officer, has never smelled powder, but like most he has had wide building experience. Long a worker on U.S. rivers, and conqueror of the Ohio-Mississippi flood of 1937, he was Division Engineer at Little Rock, with a long record of crack administration behind him, when he went to the General Staff...