Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dwyer seemed to be running for re-election on a platform of love, and he was getting gladsome publicity from the press. Last week, the election won, Bill O'Dwyer ruefully learned the lesson of the sorcerer's apprentice: it is hard to stop a flood...
...have Salome's brassiere equipped with fireworks that would shoot off sparks at the end of her Dance of the Seven Veils; also to have a flying hippopotamus zooming over the stage for added effect. Both schemes were regretfully rejected as impractical, along with a plan to flood the stage with blood and have John the Baptist's head float on it. Even so, predicted Designer Dali when they were finished: "Those who protest will protest loudly, but those who like it will become delirious." Last week when Londoners finally got in on the act, some found what...
...fashion in finishes was once fire or flood, but recently the doomsters have gone atomic or bacteriological. Stewart is a measles man-"super-measles"-but he has no stomach to describe the death agonies he inflicts...
...final delaying tactic, McCarran had departed for Europe for further "investigation" of the D.P. situation, and sent back a warning that "this country will be inundated with a flood of aliens." Michigan's Homer Ferguson patiently refuted his arguments, pointed out that 134,000 was scarcely an inundation, amounted to less than a fifth of one percent of the labor force. But McCarran's allies carried on. For nearly six hours, Washington's garrulous lightweight, Harry P. Cain, held the floor with a low-grade filibuster. The D.P. opponents talked on, counting on the dwindling attendance...
...Eastern countries, this would mean reestablishing advantageous trade relations with the West. Austria, Germany, Italy, and France desperately need such trade. Indirectly England does too; failing to make ends meet without German competition, Britain cannot survive a flood of German goods--denied Eastern markets--pouring into the West...