Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time when their mountain homeland would be free of Communist oppression. In the Middle East, a million Palestinian Arabs vegetated for the 14th year in camps and villages, still pawns in the irreconcilable conflict between the Arab states and Israel. In East Berlin, the Wall dammed up the flow of refugees, but men still tunneled beneath it, or leaped over it, or sought to blow it down...
...separate buildings: the ROTC building, which houses laboratories for research in geochemistry and economic geology: the Dunbar laboratory, where geophysicists study rocks and materials under great heat and pressure; and the geological museum, which contains a laboratory for chemical analysis of sedimentary rocks, equipment for the study of stream flow and transportation of sediments, and the Berman Memorial Laboratory which has x-ray equipment for studying the composition and structure of minedals...
...merely a teapot tempest. The most important villain in the Estes case is the vast tangle of the farm price-support system, with its accompanying systems of production controls and surplus storage. Price-support programs provide scant help for the neediest farmers; the most bountiful benefits flow to prosperous farmers, who could get along with no Government...
With its population already a bloated 3,250,000, Hong Kong can no longer absorb the steady flow of mainlanders who pour into the city daily. As Red China's hunger worsened, the flow became a flood...
Just as the exterior symbolized to Saarinen "the excitement of the trip," so the interior suggests the constant flow of human traffic. To Saarinen. form did not merely follow function-it was also meant to lift the spirit: "Architecture is not just to fulfill man's need for shelter, but also to fulfill man's belief in the nobility of his existence on earth...