Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first day, U.S. infantry veterans of Buna and Saidor held firm in the face of a flood of Japs. The second day, they were forced to give ground; by night the Japs had reached the main U.S. defensive positions on the Driniumor River. They had gained four to five miles; some of them forded the river...
...year after the war, nearly 20 million war workers and servicemen will look for employment. Prices must be kept down, he argued, so that soaring costs will not cancel the people's savings before the flood of civilian goods takes the place of war production...
Supplies for two divisions were to begin flowing in at once. At week's end it was estimated that "a few weeks" would suffice to make the port a funnel for the great flood of supplies needed to. sustain General Montgomery's offensive...
...Joseph stood between two cultures-the crumbling, terrifying, brilliant, polytheistic life of the Egyptians, and the simple, severe, shepherd's culture of the monotheistic Jews. His mind was filled with the ceaseless introspective poetry of comparison and analogy, prophecy and symbolism. He thought about the story of the Flood and its symbolic repetition in the tears of men. He compared the eerie legends of Egyptian mythology with the religious teachings of the Hebrews. He pondered upon the comparative meaning of sin. Sin for the Egyptians was not conscious wrongdoing, but more akin to a want of foresight. "It meant...
...drunk for the first time in his life. And that had brought back the Stadium, and the team and the "Fight" cheer. He saw the Charles late in the afternoon, and the last crew shooting under Anderson bridge, heading for Newell. The warm, sentimental flood was getting stronger, pulling him along. He took a pull at his drink, lit a cigarette and let himself...