Word: sandbag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couldn't because it was public property. More important, the President worked hard to find Ickes a job after the State Department became worried he was radioactive. (He now works out of a Washington lobbying firm on the upcoming Group of Seven summit.) "If my purpose was to sandbag the President," Ickes told TIME, "I would have put on rubber gloves, put the document inside a plain brown envelope, tied a rock to it and thrown it through the window of a news organization...
Emergency personnel deployed to sandbag the walls and line the dikes' river sides with plastic sheeting could only help relieve part of the crisis. In shipshape Dutch style, the evacuation proceeded in a remarkably orderly manner; the notices went out by post. Even so, a bit of unforeseen chaos ensued when some highways became paralyzed with traffic. Seemingly every car and truck that could move was pressed into carrying refugees burdened with cargo ranging from pigs to pianos. Saving livestock put unusual pressures on vehicles and roads. As the exodus progressed, the Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, just north...
...emergency crews fortified sandbag barriers and shoveled away muck in flood-stricken California, President Clinton appeared live on TV to assure victims that federal help was on the way. At least six deaths have been blamed on storms along the West Coast. By last night, Clinton had certified 24 California counties north of San Francisco and near Los Angeles as disaster areas. He will visit the scene in the politically important state early next week, on a trip originally planned to mark the first anniversary of the Northridge earthquake. While storms abated throughout the state today, forecasters predicted more rain...
...country's midsection got an unpleasant reminder of the great flood of '93 when heavy spring rains swelled rivers to overflowing in several states, once again sending residents scurrying to higher ground and bringing out legions of sandbag volunteers. At least six deaths were reported...
Piling up the bags has been good therapy for people eager to do something to combat the floods while keeping their minds off their losses. "All we can do is sandbag," said John Boerding, 50, who figured that more than half his 2,000-acre crop of soybeans, corn and wheat in St. Charles County had already been destroyed by late last week, and was worried that his home would sink as well. "What else can we do? Most people in this area don't even have flood insurance." But even if there are no outbreaks of disease because...