Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...queen of queens, the 21-year-old daughter of a dental technician, had no hifalutin ideas for the future. While her measurements (height 5 ft. 7 in., weight 130 lbs., bust 35 in.) flashed across the land and the usual flood of show-business offers poured in, she an nounced that she planned to take the $5,000 scholarship and use it to finish her studies at Memphis State College. Hollywood was definitely out, she said. Already engaged to a medical school student, she explained: "I'm only interested in one contract - the marriage contract...
...boosted anticipated Government revenues up about $4 billion to $41.7 billion. For paring expenditures, Politician Truman gave the Republican Congress scant credit. Congress, he said, had managed to trim his budget by $1.5 billion, but the actual saving was only $528 million (appropriations for Turkey and Greece, for flood control and other emergencies had cut it down). That was a direct political poke at Republican claims of having saved $3 to $7 billion...
...there are other potential horrors. The U.N.'s Commission for Conventional Armaments last week pondered the category of weapons of mass destruction, and U.S. Adviser Franklin A. Lindsay proposed this definition: "Any instrument or invention capable of destroying life and property on the scale of a plague, a flood, a famine or an earthquake...
Kappa books are manufactured by throwing paper, ink and a mysterious grey powder into the funnel-shaped mouths of giant machines. In less than five minutes' time the machines can produce a flood of different volumes-seven million each year. The powder is "just rubbish-brains of asses dried and ground...
...took Gibbon's imagination to flood Pannini's wide, quiet ruins with the roaring tide of history: "As I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers in the Temple of Jupiter . . . the idea of writing the decline and fall of the City first started to my mind...