Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exciting things about going to Harvard or Radcliffe is that people are always writing about us. The most recent contribution to this steady flow of analysis is Nora Sayre's dated glance at "The Radcliffe Girl" in Holiday magazine...
...fact is, as his new novel Wilderness vividly demonstrates, Warren has all too often used his remarkable skill as a novelist with carelessness and cynicism. His best-known book, All the King's Men, is a good novel with great flaws. Its strengths are in mood, speech and flow of action; its weaknesses are Warren's failure to see the viciousness in Willie Stark, his idealized Huey Long character, and his distrust of his own ability to get through the book without melodrama. The novel's too-obtrusive narrator becomes aware of the unfathomable intertwinings of guilt...
...subcommittee, holding its hearings in the major ports of entry, plans to concentrate on imported pornography, although other prime concerns will be "unclean" records and the flow of communist propaganda into this country...
Anytime you move a magnet in the close proximity of a coiled wire (or vice versa) you cause a current to flow through the coil. In the stereo cartridge we can either attach a magnet to the stylus arm and hold two coils stationary in the body of the device, or we can wind two coils onto the arm in different directions and mount a stationary magnet in the body. Either way (one is called "moving magnet", the other "moving coil" for obcious reasons), when the needle does its mazurka in the groove the stylus arms follows, and the groove...
With Helicopters. How can the U.S. help? Conventional tactics against the shadowy Viet Cong, a Vietnamese official pointed out last week, are "like playing soccer with a tennis racket." Despite an impressive speedup in the flow of U.S. supplies, for example, Saigon warehouses are stacked with deteriorating carbines, cloth, medical and communications equipment. Reason: Diem's six-year-old army has made no" provision to handle the increased flow. Many combat units have to use guns that have no gun sights or are so badly worn that they jam more often than they fire. Yet new U.S. weapons seem...