Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Macmillan, would enable the whole Atlantic community to increase trade and to ride out slack periods. Both Macmillan and Kennedy agreed that much of the U.S.'s recent gold drainage was due to an imbalance in interest rates between the U.S. and Britain, which caused U.S. dollars to flow to Britain in search of higher interest. Their conclusion: such problems should be better coordinated. On one touchy subject, the Common Market, Kennedy and Macmillan sidestepped detailed discussion...
TASTIER WATER would flow from U.S. taps under new rules being shaped by a Public Health Service committee. Lower limits will be set on chemicals that give some water bad taste, sometimes stain laundry...
...millionaire guest tells the Rhodeses how much he enjoyed eating "ut doaks" in the U.S. Barbara laughs irrepressibly when she realizes he is saying hot dogs, and the rich man turns frigid. Linguistic laggards themselves, the Rhodeses nonetheless know enough French to sense barbed undercurrents in the conversational flow...
...Educating a person for a current technology or a current art just doesn't make sense any more," says Professor Ascher Shapiro. Referring to his own field of mechanical engineering, he explains: "Now we are concentrating less on the technological art and more on engineering science: thermo dynamics, flow dynamics, electromagnetic theory-things which will be part of a man's kit no matter what he goes into...
Davis was a brilliant descriptive reporter with a breezy, intimate flow of language and a sensual precision of phrase. Bullets whirred past him like "rustling silk," shrapnel made "the jarring sound of telephone wires when someone strikes the pole." Politically he was naive and jingoistic. Personally he was humane and brave. Some regarded him as an unconscionable prig-"a robust flower of American muscular Christianity . . . the artistic boy scout," William Rothenstein called...