Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British achievements," warned Vanier, "are rendering a dreadful disservice to their compatriots. There is no surer way of drawing on the head of this province the hatred and violence of the other eight [English-speaking provinces]. Such men will bear a terrible responsibility if they succeed in loosing this flood which might engulf...
...great and immediate U.S. aviation needs of 1942 is skilled bomber crews. Without bomber crews there can be no second front, no 1942 or early-1943 offensive. And the plane Carl Ward saw in the making was the answer-a bomber-crew trainer that can be produced at flood speed. More, it is an allwood plane, draining off no great quantities of vital materials...
...Rationing boards braced themselves for a flood of appeals. Loudest wails came from salesmen accustomed to burning five to ten gallons a day in covering their territories. Best they could get was usually a 6-3 card, good for little more than one gallon...
Along the famed road from Burma the Japanese seemed to be rushing like a flood wave on the Yangtze, irresistible and ruinous. The mere boundary between Burma and China did not dam them. They pressed headlong across into Yünnan Province, where the hills are cruel and the Governor is called The Dragon and the tribesmen are not hospitable...
...Corregidor's men it was an old story. There were always live Japs where the dead ones came from. They poured across the narrow waters in flood, swarmed over and through the defenders. The Jap was just too many...