Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Started Runnin'." "It started breakin' in one place, then another," said leathery, 60-year-old Fisherman John Quails, a flood veteran. "Then I heard a boy hollerin' up the way a piece, and I seen it was all over. We started runnin' and the water was right at our heels...
They ran for a piece of high ground north of town, picking up 72-year-old Mrs. Lula Packwell in her wheel chair on the way. At first, Mrs. Packwell was danged if she'd leave, even though the water was sloshing into her living room. But they took her along anyway...
...morning, some 600 of Grand Tower's 1,000 citizens were perched in the school building, the Methodist or Baptist churches, or in tents on the block-square island of high ground. Around them lay the deepest flood water in local history. They had brought portable oil stoves, bedding and other necessities to the island. The Coast Guard boat brought supplies every morning; the movie house rowed in a new film every night. The State Health Department vaccinated everybody for typhoid and smallpox...
...They're gonna have to have a new levee," he said, "or I'm gonna leave town. Year after year, I been takin' this water in pretty good humor. But no longer. Either they build a levee, or I'm takin' to the hills...
Helpful Steelman snatched a glass of water, proposed a toast "to His Majesty, the King of England"; Sir Frederick replied with a toast to the President of the U.S. Then the guests left the dreamlike luncheon in the cool seventh-floor dining room for the humid heat of Washington's streets. Said one: "It was awfully nice, but I haven't the damndest idea what it was all about." Said an Administration leader, veteran of many high-pressure capital lunches: "A luncheon without a motive is rather refreshing...