Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defense compound. He dragged urgently needed ammunition across open areas to gun positions. When he discovered a wounded gun crew, he stayed behind to cover their withdrawal. Donlon himself was wounded four times, the first a stomach wound into which he stuffed a handkerchief to stem the flow of blood. Yet he refused aid for himself until after daylight, when all of his men had been tended...
...Atlantic Alliance," he said, "is not in the midst of crisis, as some alarm-mongers would have you believe. But it is in the midst of change ... To change patterns of thought or the shape of institutions is never very easy. Today's discussion and debate, the flow of ideas and proposals, is proof of coming change and a spur to continuing action...
What goes on is a flow of innovations that have raised premium income to a record $1.5 billion. Travelers established its own weather station and research center in 1955, geared casualty insurance thereafter to better information on storms and industrial-accident causes. It was first to introduce monthly budget plans, and it writes 25% of all package-plan insurance sold in the U.S. Travelers' fastest-growing division now is group insurance, which the company got into in 1866 when it wrote a policy covering every member of the Baltimore fire department with $1,000 in life insurance. This year...
...Dutch treat will be used to rebuild Indonesia's Dutch-equipped railway system and sugar and tin industries-crippled when the flow of replacement parts from The Netherlands was halted-and to expand and improve inadequate port and airport facilities...
...summer sunburn from the beach, the victim of snow blindness may not feel it until several hours afterwards. The first indication will be a slight visual discomfort like a speck in the eye. This worsens until the eyes burn as though full of grains of sand, with accompanying frofuse flow of tears and swelling of the eyelids. The patient will dread the sight of bright light...