Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mile-per-hour winds and nine feet of flood waters destroyed about 100 homes and well over 200 cars; the ocean flooded another 1000 homes and the army evacuated 3000 people, housing them temporarily in the town's schools. Pieces of the concrete seawall, weighing hundreds of pounds, floated through the streets as though they were styrofoam surfboards. Emergency crews erected a 15-foot floodwall along the beach in case a second storm which weather forecasters predicted would come a few days after the first, hit the town. However, it seems unlikely that dirt would have succeeded where tons...
...federal government and the sanctity of the New Deal: they moved from Boston's decaying white ethnic neighborhoods to Hull with the aid of the G.I. Bill. Once again, they consider themselves entitled to aid to preserve their meager economic standing. Homeowners, 90 per cent of whom lacked flood insurance, will be paying up to $1200 annually for the next two or three decades for the government's low interest loans...
...publisher can testify to the enormous numbers of books now sent to press, and the astronomical royalties or fees authors can receive--both phenomena unparalleled in the past even granting the natural, numerical increase in all the things of modern life. A flood of writing pours in from the publishing houses, but no corresponding rise in quality has occurred, no onslaught of genius. We do not even feel that in the great number of words and subjects--all that is 'said'--there is more truly 'revealed.' A disheartening monotony pervades the fresh editions of criticism, the flashy or clever works...
Marston learned last July that Rep. Daniel J. Flood (D-Pa.) had allegedly secured a $14.5 million federal grant for financing the new wing. Eilberg's law firm subsequently obtained the rights to handle the construction contract and the hospital contracted the engineering firm recommended to them by Flood. Based on this information, Marston began a full-fledged investigation, aided by the testimony of a former Flood aide, Stephen Elko, who turned state's evidence after his recent bribery conviction in Los Angeles last October...
...division of Justice, to tell him about the active status of the investigation into Eilberg's dealings with the Hahnemann Hospital, and to suggest that the president may be an unwitting accomplice to Eilberg's schemes. Baker had co-signed Elko's immunity papers with Marston, in which Rep. Flood's name appeared on the last line in connection with the federal grant...