Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Washington fears now is a new flood of wage demands from all union quarters...
Last week the Vichy area suffered from its worst flood since 1907. Angrily swollen, the Allier River inundated parts of Vichy itself, nearby Puy-de-Dóme, and neighboring farmlands...
...acrid say. Said the London Sunday Graphic: "This was Disunited Nations Week in the U.S.A." The Graphic added that real harm was being done to the world-vital friendship of the U.S. and Britain. The Daily Mail bitingly satirized the world-touring U.S. Senators who loosed a flood of U.S. pride and criticism last fortnight. A writer in the Sunday Dispatch laid the blame for the Darlan deal in Africa and the recognition of Italy as a cobelligerent at the respective doors of U.S. statesmen bent on kid-gloving Vichy and U.S. politicians rounding up Italian-American votes...
...last week these spearheaded lines were channels through which Allied tides could now flow, flood and finally overwhelm Berlin and Tokyo...
...last week the flood of camp-meetin' melody, which had been rising steadily in juke joints and on radio programs for over a year, was swamping Tin Pan Alley. Big names in the drawling art of country and cowboy balladry like Gene Autry, the Carter Family, Roy Acuff and Al Dexter were selling on disks as never before. Top-flight songsters like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra were making their biggest smashes with hill billy tunes. A homely earful of the purest Texas corn, Al Dexter's Pistol Packin' Mama, had edged its way to first place...