Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sing, the audience visibly trembled. For few had known what to expect from Niles. Authentic he may be, fascinating he is, but a singer he really is not. His is a voice that is not a voice in the musical sense of the word. His singing is not a flow of melody, but a strange string of sounds that are sometimes shrill, sometimes whining, sometimes rasping, like the sound of a cello bow scratching an unwilling string, but most often pitched in a vibrant falsetto of unworldly intensity. It is not the sort of voice that one instantly enjoys...
...pump, synchronized to the heartbeat by means of an electrocardiogram, overcomes resistance in the arterial network and enables small substitute channels to dilate and carry blood which ordinarily would flow through the obstructed coronary artery...
...Airlift Place), Clayallee (named for General Lucius D. Clay), Washingtonplatz (for the first U.S. President). The signs, brought from West Berlin, point to an exhibit which opened last week in the TIME & LIFE Reception Center. Americans' heightened interest in Berlin today was evident at once in a flow of 150 to 200 persons visiting the exhibit each hour...
...production, the Communist regime now allows farmers to have their own small plots of land, raise chickens and pigs privately in addition to their work in the production brigades, and sell their produce in the towns and keep the profits. This has promoted a black market in edibles that flow to special luxury restaurants, where highly paid government officials can dine without ration cards. But the limited "free market" produces its own social problems; it not only encourages conspicuous luxury buying by a privileged few in full view of the hungry masses, but also puts money in the hands...
Just before midnight, word of the latest Communist move was flashed to duty officers at U.S. headquarters in West Berlin. Not satisfied with damming up the flow of refugees from East Berlin, the Reds now blandly announced restrictions on Westerners who wanted to enter the eastern half of the city. From that time on, said the East-zone radio, a West Berliner would have to get a pass and use only selected border crossings; "foreigners," i.e., Western Allied civilians and officials, would be allowed to use only one route for entering and leaving East Berlin. This was violation enough...