Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...tugs pulled, winches ground, a flood tide whipped by a chill north wind nudged at her sides. Last week, on the fifth try, the mighty U.S.S. Missouri heaved a metallic sigh and slipped off the Chesapeake Bay shoal where she had sat, unbudging, on her big broad bottom, for 15 days. The band played Anchor's Aweigh and Nobody Knows de Trouble I See. In drydock, the damage proved slight. This week, haggard Captain William D. Brown, whose troubles were just beginning, would have to explain to a court of inquiry how, on his first trip as her commanding...
Gusher. Both Texas industry and Wildcatter Glenn McCarthy were born at Spindletop-a gently sloping salt dome near Beaumont, from which gushed the first big flood of dark, heavy Texas oil. Like many another boom field which was to follow, the Spindletop discovery was the result of one man's faith, energy and stubbornness...
...ability to be placid in the midst of storm and stress has given him his peculiarly firm hold over the Socialist Party. He cannot be rushed. He cannot be stampeded by a flood of oratory. In the cabinet room of No. 10, even the most eloquent minister may find that during his choicest arguments Attlee has been deeply absorbed in some pencil design on the paper before him. It is maddening, but there is no penetrating this kind of defense. Attlee in his cool ivory tower quietly sorts out the pros & cons and comes to a decision...
...snippets of wisdom: Lincoln had never said them. A few were paraphrases of genuine Lincolnisms taken out of context; others were pure invention, and all had been denounced as spurious in the Abraham Lincoln Quarterly. By last week, admitted Editor Gardner ("Mike") Cowles, Look was deluged with a "fantastic" flood of mail from indignant readers who had spotted the alleged Lincolnisms for what they were...
...Author Llewellyn doggedly goes on piling up mileage. His princess does not get angry: she "looked through scarlet lace." A soldier does not feel regret: "hands were wringing in his brain." Snowy's leg is not suddenly weak: it goes to "laughing gristle." Other Llewellynisms that would flood any ordinary carburetor: "A quick thrust of pity alchemised her feeling to a silt of motherly impatience"; "she rolled over, drinking coffee...