Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just because he is enraged at the sight of a white and a Negro sitting together in the same car. Such scenes, he said, are common in Lowndes County, where white people drive home their Negro maids, handymen and cooks. "If that's grounds for murder, blood can flow in Lowndes County." The Klan, he said, had killed a defenseless woman. "Is that the kind of bravery we fought for? I'd say not." Gantt concluded by invoking the name of Alabama's Governor, who is all but worshiped in Lowndes County-"one of the greatest segregationists...
...knew that there must be some federal money available for college construction, had no idea how much. Board Chairman Herman E. Muller, an accountant, decided it was worth investigating after an outside study showed that Ithaca could expect a rising cash flow from increasing enrollment to handle a heavy loan commitment. "It was a simple business proposition," said Muller. "We had a tremendous demand for our product. We had a good product. We had a good faculty-a good production line." Some trustees fretted about going bankrupt, or feared Government control. Yet the more they looked into the matter...
...moneymen are the guardians of the non-Communist world's intricate system of monetary cooperation, created at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 and carefully cultivated and expanded ever since. Mostly from Europe and the U.S., they manage the flow of money, pass on the credit of nations, come to the aid of failing currencies and discipline payments debtors. Their work, which is usually marked by anonymity and almost always performed out of public view, has made possible the great surge of the West's economies since World...
...International Monetary Fund is a specialized agency of the United Nations that has 102 member countries, acts as a sort of central bank of the national central banks. The IMF oversees the world's supply and flow of gold and currencies, recommends ways to promote financial stability and serves as a meeting ground for both the prosperous and the developing nations. Armed with $16 billion in gold and currency pledged by its members, the IMF stands ready to grant loans to nations in financial crisis, be it from inflation or balance-of-payments deficits. Its meetings: once a year...
...measured footsteps on his mike; he joined R.A.F. bomber pilots on their raids over Germany and described the nightmarish rainbow of flak and fire. "The fall of Britain," said a friend, "would have been as meaningful to him as the loss of a child. He internalizes world events. They flow through him like a stream...