Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must always weigh what we are doing against the requirements of the situation and what the other side is doing. You are aware, I am sure, that the flow of men and material from North Vietnam into the South radically increased towards the end of 1964 and continued at a high level in the next two years. It was to meet that escalation, designed to achieve military victory by the North against the South, that we sent our men in large numbers and began an air campaign against military targets in North Vietnam...
...good. There are a huge number of committees, boards, bureaus, departments and commissions in New York doing very little that is visible to the naked eye--except, of course, absorbing a steady flow of public funds. And they do, as Buckley claims, succeed in totally obscuring who is paying for what, and what is being accomplished by whom...
...taken almost $1 billion worth. Lately it has been seeking to buy an additional $29 million worth of wheat and vegetable oil under the easy payment terms of the Food-for-Peace program. However, as a result of two restrictive amendments passed by the last session of Congress, the flow of food to Tito's homeland has been mired, and finally halted, by an obscure bridge buster called the Findley Amendment...
...Montagnards that they began to pass the word that the white woman's magic might be even better than that of their own women sorcerers. The trickle of patients to Dr. Smith's five-bed dispensary in the provincial capital of Kontum grew to a steady flow and then an overflow. Dr. Smith thereupon began a long struggle to build a hospital outside Kontum, which many Montagnards regarded as a hostile city...
...frontiersman's traditional snake bite remedy came in a bottle, and was shown, years ago, to be bad medicine. Alcohol increases the blood flow in the extremities and thus helps to spread the poison. Now a Florida surgeon suggests that the currently fashionable technique, combining a tourniquet with crosswise incisions and sucking out the venom, may not be much better. His recommendation: cut out a piece of flesh at the bite site...