Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order to the black-helmeted, ten-man firing squad lined up 30 ft. from the prisoner, and the soldiers raised their U.S.-made carbines. The captain shouted: "Ban!" (Fire!). There was a ragged volley. Then the prisoner's body slumped against the straps, and blood began to flow over the high-necked black robe and white silk pantaloons. Pistol drawn, the captain strode forward, delivered the coup de gráce behind the left...
...thirsty nation, the $150 million scheme is a modern equivalent of Christ's miracle of multiplication. Eventually, 85 billion gallons of water a year will flow through Israel's 154-mile network of pipelines, channels, siphons and tunnels. It will replenish the overexploited water table of the citrus-growing central plains, slake the thirst of existing Negev settlements, and provide enough water to sustain some 15,000 new families in the desert. But, momentous as the plan may be to Israel's future, the government last week went to great pains to play it down...
...However, Arab leaders rejected a formula, worked out by Special U.S. Envoy Eric Johnston in 1955, that would have given Israel 40% of the Jordan's annual flow of some 335 billion gallons. Jordan would have received 45%, with Syria and Lebanon sharing the other...
...freed himself from more than two decades of dedication to his country's culture. Just back from Germany, this week he will conduct a concert in Portland, Ore., and is slated for another in Chicago. But his lively performances on the podium do not stanch his virtually uninterrupted flow of symphonies, concertos, ballets, string quartets, songs and toccatas. While New York reconsiders the merits of his Symphony No. 6, Chávez is polishing off a new percussion piece and is halfway through Symphony No. 7. "When you solve one problem," he says, "go on to the next. That...
...Well, he managed deftly by describing the new payments figures as "alarmingly good." Talking before the Advertising Council, Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. seemed relieved to report that the demand for money had fallen below his expectations, largely because of high corporate profits and heavy cash flow. The result: the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee decided that higher interest rates are not necessary...