Word: flow
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Forestalling the Floods. In volume of flow and hydroelectric potential, the Columbia ranks high among the earth's mightiest rivers. Each year it discharges into the Pacific enough water to cover the entire state of Texas a foot deep. But the flow is uneven: in the spring, swelled by the melted snows of the Rockies, the Columbia becomes a fierce torrent, sometimes overflowing its banks and causing costly flood damage...
...Communist system. In his notable book, The New Class, smuggled out to Western publishers, Djilas wrote: "The totalitarian tyranny and control of the new class which came into being during the revolution has become the yoke under which the blood and sweat of all members of society flow." As chief controller of the new class, Tito was forced to take the remark personally; his court ordered seven more years added to Djilas' sentence...
Except for two factors, the Fisher reign would be unlikely to ripple the flow of ecclesiastical history. One is his dedication to the ecumenical movement. Once, when the Anglican Assembly was dragging its feet about voting money to the British Council of Churches, he said: "If I had to choose between being Archbishop of Canterbury and president of the British Council of Churches, I'd choose the presidency." He has been one of the most active leaders of the World Council of Churches, and also helped shepherd the pioneering Church of South India into being despite the complicated theological...
...full quota of wound stripes. A malicious rumor was dry-docked at New York's River Club that Joe Kennedy had given Jackie a million dollars not to divorce Jack. An Ohio woman remarked darkly that "she's both French and Catholic. The wine will flow in the White House." Gossip columnists reported seriously that Jackie was not pregnant-that it was all an elaborate hoax to remove her from the campaign scene. Her biggest battle-the affair of the sable underwear-was touched off when Women's Wear Daily reported that Jackie and her mother...
...rebels would maintain economic ties with France "because of the natural flow of goods between the two countries and because it would be absurd to de stroy existing markets." But soothing words do not obscure some ultimate goals: the nationalization of Algerian banks, the conversion of European vineyards to Moslem wheat fields, and the expropriation of large, European-owned estates, which will then be parceled out to Moslem farmers...