Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freedom Riders before cops broke up the brawl. At Birmingham's Trailways Terminal, another mob charged the bus, swinging fists, blackjacks and lengths of pipe. Although the terminal is just two blocks from Birmingham's police headquarters, the cops were conspicuously absent when the blood began to flow. Said tough, bullfrog-voiced Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor later: "Our people of Birmingham are a peaceful people, and we never have any trouble here unless some people come into our city looking for trouble." Said Alabama's Governor John Patterson: "I cannot guarantee protection for this bunch...
...project sponsored jointly by the Student Council and P.B.H. aims at increasing the flow of Harvard exports to foreign countries. Until June 6, "Operations Booklift and Clothesline" will canvass the College and Radcliffe for old clothes and used books destined to be distributed in Tanganyika and South America...
...Rover (nuclear rocket) program, Seaborg said, has already tested a ground-bound model. Kiwi-A. It has demonstrated that a nuclear reactor can heat a flow of high-pressure gaseous hydrogen to proper operating temperature and can keep in operation as long as needed in a space vehicle. The more advanced Kiwi-B. which will be tested soon in Nevada, will use liquid hydrogen for its propellant...
From such casual miffs can flow great neighborhood rifts. In Berkeley, Calif., John Klein, a labor unionist, got fed up with the host of ills that infested his soil, planted his whole lawn this year with hardy ivy. Last week his status-conscious neighbors decided that this was going too far, and slapped him with a lawsuit for violating a neighborhood compact whose fine print requires that lawns and gardens be kept "in a good and husbandlike manner." None of this would have happened if only somebody in The Bronx had been more alert in the first place...
...blood for a few days. Surgeon David Dillard opened an artery and a vein in Ben's left arm and implanted a plastic tube in each. He brought the ends of the tubes out over the forearm, hooked them together to form a bypass that let the blood flow through freely, to prevent clotting. When the small skin wounds healed, physicians connected the tubes to the artificial kidney. This filtered the poisons out of Ben's blood, to give him a few days' lease on life. The beauty of the technique was that with the bypass...