Word: flow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Perfect Pretext. Against the backdrop of military preparedness, the Soviets began an ominous propaganda campaign that seemed aimed at crippling West Berlin's economy. The Soviet government announced that it had requested the East Germans to use whatever measures were necessary to halt what it claimed was the flow of military products from West Berlin to West Germany. That announcement was followed up by a Pravda article that listed a large number of Berlin-made products, chiefly optical and electrical equipment, that the Soviets claimed were used by the West German armed forces...
Along about half way through the flow of faculty comes Tim Gould, serious Harvard undergraduate leftist, up to the X people saying in a very agitated way that they should get out of there because they are just going to get all the demonstrators kicked out of school whereas he is trying to save them by buttonholing professors and giving them good reasons for thinking the way he does. X tells him the campus must defend itself, and that some of his professors are sneaking...
...belief that Peking finds the status quo alluring. Red China earns nearly half of its foreign exchange-upwards of $500 million a year in hard currency-by trading with and through the crown colony. Some $100 million of that amount comes in remittances from overseas Chinese that flow through the colony's banks; Peking owns or controls ten banks and innumerable other businesses in Hong Kong...
...structured in four movements, each movement built around one of the classical elements--water, earth, fire, and air. But the elemental imagery is not strict. Like everything else in the program, the images flow into one another, joining and drawing strength from each other...
...flight, air is forced to flow more quickly over the curved topside than past the flat undersurface. Air pressure above the wing is thereby reduced, and the wing develops lift...