Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vital Margin." For such progress, the President credited the basic virtues of the free-enterprise system. "No planned economy," he said, "can have the flexibility and adaptability that flow from the voluntary response of workers, consumers and managements to the shifting financial incentives provided by free markets." He rejected the "idea that economic stimulation can come only from a rapid expansion of federal spending...
...annual flow of confirmed infiltrators grew from 1,800 in 1959-60 to 3,700 in 1961 to 5,800 in 1962. In 1963 the figure dropped to 4,000, but last year the thick Red line swelled further. During the first seven months of 1964, beyond which figures have not been released, 4,000 confirmed and 6,000 probable infiltrators entered South Viet Nam, meaning that perhaps as many as 20,000 came in throughout the year...
Even as Winston Churchill lingered between life and death last week, the press obituaries began to flow. Just three hours after his stroke, United Press International began moving 20,000 words that touched on every facet of his career. Columnists Marquis Childs, David Lawrence and James Reston, among many others, turned out past-tense tributes that read as if Churchill were already dead. "The advance obit writers had an easy time with Winston Churchill," Reston wrote. "He had anticipated all the great crises of life, even his own death...
...master strain in his character is the rhetorician. Platform speeches and leading articles flow from him almost against his will. At dinner he talks and you can hardly tell when he leaves off, quoting his one idol, Macaulay, and begins his other, Winston Churchill...
...passionate devotion to the matter in hand, an imperturbable self-confidence, a ready flow of sonorous, half-commonplace, half-lofty English, a fine faculty of striking imagery--we shall hear more about this in the course of 10 years...