Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Movie theaters have packed houses. Here in Tokyo, the Ginza is full of happy-looking pedestrians." Kishi spoke the truth. The Wednesday night riot that frightened his Cabinet was confined to a small area around the Diet. At the height of the uproar, there was a brisk and continuous flow of taxis and private cars scarcely a block away. All week long, Kishi himself drove around Tokyo in a small sedan, followed by a single car with plainclothesmen. Because he always stopped obediently at traffic lights, no one noticed...
...just ahead of it is a tiny nose-cone test model. When an electric spark explodes the oxygen-hydrogen, it bursts through the diaphragm and into the vacuum. Ahead of it rushes a hot shock wave that hits the test model at actual re-entry speed and temperature. The flow lasts no more than one-thousandth of a second, but it is enough to yield volumes of scientific information. After only six months of work with this violent instrument. Kantrowitz was able to send the Air Force the first firm data about heat and air conditions around a nose cone...
Fragile Crust. Geologically, Chile is in a mountain-building period, thrusting up the Andes Mountains over slow-moving heat currents in the solid layer beneath the earth's crust. When the heat currents flow evenly, the surface holds steady. When the currents vary, they put strains on the crust, which slips ponderously along lines of weakness called fault lines. The magnified result of such slips can be devastating to humans and their buildings on the earth's surface. Transferred to the sea, the giant push creates huge seismic waves...
...English folklore, the flow of a man's blood was supposed to be governed, like the ocean tides, by the phases of the moon. Modern medicine, of course, only chuckles at such claptrap. But now a Florida eye, ear, nose and throat specialist has gathered scientific evidence suggesting that there may be something to the old belief after...
...probe's receiver heard it. responded dutifully by allowing a half-strength electric current to flow through the filaments of the big transmitter's tubes. After this initial warmup, the apparatus was rested for six hours to recharge the batteries...