Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Allied fighting machine, some 6,000 tons of war materiel must be funneled daily through the port of Saigon. The labor is usually done by Vietnamese stevedores; the men of the U.S. Army's 4th Transportation Command seldom lift anything heavier than a clipboard as they direct the flow of goods. But last week the Saigon Dock Workers Union went out on strike. To keep things moving off the ships, 800 U.S. soldiers stepped in to do the heaving and toting ordinarily done by three times that many Vietnamese. From cannon barrels to C rations, from barbed wire...
...kind normally has no difficulty in getting it. His doctor slips a needle into the vein and threads a thin polyethylene tube (catheter) through the needle into the bloodstream. The needle is then removed, the catheter taped down so that it will not pull out, and the flow of fluid continued as long as required. Occasionally, however, this procedure can have tragic complications...
...topped $86 million, which places TIME second only to LIFE among all magazines in advertising revenue. To speed production and distribution, a sixth U.S. printing plant was added, in Atlanta, and in our New York offices we installed the first of two 360/30 IBM computer systems to accelerate the flow of copy...
...second straight year of drought. The emergency allotment will serve to dispel reports that President Johnson has delayed new food outlays because of a fit of personal pique over Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's speeches against U.S. policy in Viet Nam. It will assure the eastward flow of food along the so-called "bridge of boats" until March and feed millions in the northern state of Bihar and other places where the rice crop has been a disaster...
...heady days of October 1956, Polish intellectuals eagerly supported Communist Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka's stand against the Stalinists in the belief that free expression would flow under his new regime. It did, but only briefly and within strict limits. During much of the past decade, writers and artists have found Gomulka's rule arid and intolerant...