Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Somehow the tragic circumstances surrounding his death and the flood of sympathy which that released came to obscure what had actually happened. Achievements emasculated blunders. Washington became Camelot. Myth replaced reality. The nation craved a hero and Kennedy fit the bill. When Dave Powers said that "Being with Jack Kennedy in the White House was like dying and going to heaven," he captured the mood of the country at that time. It had all seemed so exciting, so different from the seamier Johnson and Nixon years. Kennedy had indeed been the best and the brightest...
...Daniel Flood, 74, the former Shakespearean actor who has represented the district around Wilkes-Barre, Pa., for 30 years, was indicted last month for taking more than $60,000 in bribes for using his influence with federal agencies. His constituents sent him back to Congress with 54% of the vote...
...over Yale set the stage for a Harvard-Brown final, played late Saturday afternoon on a flood-lit Bruin field...
...intercollegiate football games and homecoming queens. Until 1970, there were no women undergraduates at all; now there are 88, or some 10% of the student body. Observes retired President Lee A. Du-Bridge: "Our football game is a full-time day of seminars for students and alumni. And they flood the campus for them. It is equal to homecomings in each of the disciplines." Adds President Goldberger: "Our unique position is our mystique. Our small size enables us to form a community of scientists, a scholarly intimacy that cannot be found any place else...
...role as director of the Villa I Tatti, Gilmore organized the rescue of Florence's cultural monuments during the flood...