Word: spate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turned out to pasture by a recent spate of rumors, well-preserved (51) Crooner-Cinemactor Bing (The Country Girl) Crosby started work on a filmed TV show in Hollywood, set questioners straight on the superannuation chatter: "Let's just say that I'm not going to retire quite as much as Winston Churchill, but more than Betty Hutton...
...recent spate of official reunification talk developed because the bulk of the West German population is beginning to lose interest in the issue. This is not to say that there is any opposition to reunification in West Germany. Everybody is "for" it, just as everybody is "for" democracy. But the real question is just how much one is willing to give up for a united Germany. While in the early post-war years the Germans did not have much to sacrifice, now they have a great deal they would have to give up for reunification, and there seems little willingness...
Problems. In 15 months in office, he has faced two serious plots, a business depression, unemployment, droughts, a spate of charges that insiders (though not the President himself) are profiteering from government contracts and speculation in foodstuffs. Complains of the "no-idea" men around him, but has been slow to exercise firm leadership. As a result, has failed so far to make Guatemala the hoped-for showplace of anti-Communist prosperity-but $15 million granted last week by the U.S. International Cooperation Administration (mostly for job-making road construction) will help...
...rains swept in mighty torrents between the Himalayas and the sea. In the heart of the populous Ganges valley, 10,000 villages crumbled and vanished, and farmers shared tree trunks with cobras in the worst floods since 1871. In the coastal state of Orissa, eight rivers thundered simultaneously into spate, killing at least 150, inundating 3,500 sq. mi. of drought-seared cropland. The state's 138 legislators dropped everything and rushed homeward to find out their families' fate...
...Kiplingesque snatches of dialogue and Sean O'Casey-style playlets, let into the text whenever some passing gallantry or casual brutality catches the author's eye. The result is hard to read, and harder still to characterize. Yet ten years afterwards, at a time when the spate of war books is slowly drying up. Author Johnston, now an English professor at Mount Holyoke College, has resurrected the realities of war with eerie, acrid pungency...