Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spacey and detached. He compounds the effect by singing from an appropriately spacey and detached point of view. In nearly every song the singer marvels at some new sensual experience, the problems of life or his friends. His outlook recalls those aliens in "Star Trek" who rhapsodize about the flood of feeling they get when they take on human form so Captain Kirk can start smooching them...
...Flood. It was revealed last week that a former Flood aide, after being granted immunity from further prosecution, accused the Congressman of trading his influence for $100,000 in cash and bank stock...
...Sand meets water's force with its natural tendency to move," observes Mrs. Simon. "Its soft answer turns away the sea's wrath." Wet lands-marshes, swamps and coastal grass-also play a part, nourishing every thing from birds to bivalves. They also stabilize shores, absorbing flood water, releasing it slowly, and in the process protecting the land behind them...
...vain. Inevitable, inexorable, creeps forward the tide of men's despair in this petty world of fact ("There was a flood in Boston in 1835, maybe there will be again"). And all will be in vain, gurp, forever ("If it was 1835 I wouldn't have to go on the unicycle to Revere Beach, I could drown in my rooms...
...high by any but recession standards. As in 1977, new jobs will be created rapidly; this year the number of people working has risen by 3.7 million-950,000 in November alone. In all, 92.2 million Americans now have jobs. But the increase has been offset by a flood of would-be workers, especially women and youths, into the job market. That pattern will continue...