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During the flood and the years after it subsided, it became the subject of numerous Delta blues songs, including " When the Levee Breaks ", hence the lyrics, " I works on the levee, mama both night and day, I works so hard, to keep the water away " and " I's a mean old levee, cause me to weep and moan, gonna leave my baby, and my happy home ".
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During wartime the high dikes of the Yellow River were sometimes deliberately broken in order to flood advancing enemy troops.
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During the flood, they landed on Mount Parnassus, the only place spared by the flood.
During flood events the hapua is ' flushed out ' with larger amounts of sediment transferred through the outlet.
During his reign the flood of the Deucalion story was thought to have occurred.
During a spring flood, Clark was drowned and McGregor decided to move back east.
During the final weeks of the American Civil War, heavy rains created crevasses in the West Baton Rouge Parish levee, and flood waters overflowed the area, bringing a temporary halt to military skirmishes.
During times of rain the washes flood with water and can sometimes block roads with their water.
During the flood of 1864, the army camp was covered with water, and the soldiers had to suddenly flee to higher ground.
During the Ohio River flood of 1937, Mauckport was decimated.
During the Iowa flood of 2008, the Cedar River reached a record high of on June 13, 2008, the previous record was surpassing the 500-year flood plain.
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During the North Sea flood of 1953, the tidal barrier in the river IJssel proved to be inadequate.
During the Summer of 2011 the Mississippi began to flood, Pinhook was destroyed on May 2, 2011.
During the summer months, the population swells by thousands as people flood the beaches.
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During Hurricane Irene on August 28, 2011, the Hackensack River crested at 11. 84 feet, the second-highest recorded height and almost six feet above flood stage.
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During and years
During these years the youthful conductor had contributed greatly to the high level of musical life in Germany.
During the greater part of Jefferson's career he enjoyed the close collaboration of a fellow Virginian, James Madison, eight years his junior.
During the next five years the leaders of the Fair Deal reluctantly backed down from the optimistic expectations of the New Deal.
During the next five years liberal leaders in the United States sank in the cumulative confusion attendant upon and manifested in a negative policy of Containment -- and the bitterest irony -- enforced and enforceable only by threat of a weapon that we felt the greatest distaste for but could not abandon: the atom bomb.
During the last years of Woodrow Wilson's administration, a red scare developed in our country.
During the next years he gave me the second of the five contracts I would sign with the Hearst Service.
During fiscal years 1959 and 1960, there were 139 military and civilian students who came to the Institute for varying periods of special instruction.
During fiscal years 1959 and 1960, there were 795,586 visitors to the Museum.
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During these years the company's product line followed the basic tenets laid down by Mr. Brown.
About a quarter of Hardy's poems carry an appended date line, usually the year of completion, but sometimes inclusive years ( `` 1908 - 1910 '' ) or two separate dates when Hardy worked on the poem ( `` 1905 and 1926 '' ) or an approximate date ( `` During the War '' ).
During the poetically sterile years he was writing novels at the rate of almost one a year and was, in addition, burdened with bad health ( he spent six months in bed in 1881, too ill to do more than work slowly and painfully at A Laodicean ).
During the years of publication, supplement and replacement sheets were issued periodically.
During Dulles's first two years in office, while Republicans ran the Senate, the Department was at the mercy of men who had thirsted for its blood since 1945.
During the years when Israel was passing from crisis to crisis -- the Sinai campaign, the infusion of multitudes of penniless immigrants -- it was felt that the purpose of national unity could be best served if the secular majority were to yield to the religious parties.
During his five years as an assistant director, Kurosawa worked under numerous directors, but by far the most important figure in his development was Kajiro Yamamoto.
) During these years, Armenia occupied some 20 % of Azerbaijan's territory, rendering possibility of supplies from Azerbaijan an impossibility.
During the years 1106-1107 A. D., a Russian Orthodox Abbot named Daniel made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and recorded his experiences.
During the past 50 years, 7, 435 Schmidt camera plates were used to complete several sky surveys that make the data in USNO-B1. 0 accurate to within 0. 2 arcsec.
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During his 72 years of Imamat ( 1885 – 1957 ), the community celebrated his Golden ( 1937 ), Diamond ( 1946 ) and Platinum ( 1954 ) Jubilees.
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During the last twenty years of his life Alexios lost much of his popularity.
During his three years in this office, he " moved resolutely to eradicate all pro-Confederate influences in the state.
During the first years of his reign, Andrew was occupied with the discords within the Principality of Halych.
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