Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...false friends. He described Zionism as "the scaffolding needed to build the state" and then snapped, "there is no need for it now." Instead of money and good advice, cried Ben-Gurion, the Zionists should provide Israel with trained and competent Jewish immigrants from the West. Because the flow of Jews to Israel has dwindled to 25,000 a year, "we are short of manpower." Of the hostile Arab nations surrounding Israel, Egypt alone is growing 24 times as fast. What is more, the new immigrants are mostly dark-skinned, backward Oriental Jews from the Middle East and, unless they...
...Said Pipe Fitter Solomon Fried: it was like a "carom shot at billiards.") The fuel gushed out over the hangar deck, poured down a bomb elevator well to the deck below. There a spark from a welder's torch set it afire. Lieut. Milano tried to plug the flow, then yelled for workmen to call the Navy Yard fire department. Moments later he peered through a cable hole toward the bomb elevator and "saw orange." He ordered the word passed to all hands to abandon ship...
...starting with the journey to Bethlehem and ending with the arrival of the kings and a final hosanna of thanksgiving. More operatic than oratorio-like in style, the work opened with a skirl of oboes and the beating of a high-pitched hand drum, developed its theme in a flow of Catalan folk-flavored melody, interspersed with grandiose choral effects and rich orchestral passages that sounded like amplifications of Casals' own famed cello tone. High points were an impressionistic dialogue between oboes and clarinets, which suggested the mystery of the birth, and the bright, triumphant closing canticle, which employed...
...pistol blast, close up, can rupture an eardrum, and similarly sudden, unexpected sounds produce widespread, potentially harmful changes in bodily activity, as the body's defensive mechanism reacts to the unknown stimulus. Blood and intracranial pressures rise, perspiration increases, muscles contract sharply, flow of saliva and gastric juices is radically reduced, and digestion ceases. Even short-term exposure to high-intensity noise-above 135 decibels-can cause a breakdown in the ear's sensitive basilar membrane...
...young company's biggest problem was assuring a steady flow of raw aluminum for its fabricating plant. In 1955 that problem was solved when the Government, which wanted to increase aluminum capacity outside the Big Three, guaranteed a $40 million bank loan to Harvey. To assure Harvey a market, the Government also agreed to buy up to 54,000 tons a year for five years, beginning in 1959, of Harvey's primary aluminum output for U.S. strategic stockpiles. Since the reduction plant's capacity is only 60,000 tons a year, this was a healthy demand-cushion...