Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flouting the oil embargo with such success by no means freed Rhodesia from the consequences of the other economic sanctions Britain has imposed on the rebellious colony. But the new flow of fuel did mean that the time when Smith and his followers would be compelled to seek a settlement had probably been postponed for at least several months...
...problems of today's young nations. Some day there could even be something like a United States of Africa. The new nations-powerless, bothersome and somewhat bizarre as many of them seem-will continue to proliferate for a long time. It seems inevitable that, at some point, the flow will have to be reversed, bringing to federations of small nations the stature in world affairs to which at present they can only vainly aspire...
Zonalizations about the club's failture to mobilize the energies of its membership and to define a meaningful role for itself flow freely from all quarters of the club. Critics charge that the club is bound to attract young politics on the make--"oftensive, back-slaping manipulators," one former executive committee member called them--who in their frantic efforts to establish the groundwork for future political careers inevitably make fools of themselves and a farce of the organization...
...replaced the interceptors with huge new sewers which will prevent all sudden overflows into the river. Sewage will be carried to an underground chamber on Magazine Beach near B.U. Bridge. Here the stormwater will be retained and chlorinated and then discharged into the river. The rest of the sewage flow will continue through the Boston Main Drainage Tunnel, as it does now, and be treated at the Deer Island sewage plant in Boston Harbor. Until the Deer Island plant was constructed last year the untreated sewage was discharged into Boston Harbor...
...hole was dug along with a trench to the mud; the trench was opened and the mud began to flow. Enter don da casa: "What is going on here?" It was obvious. His yard was being filled with black mud. He had been away, out of touch; and thus the logic of urban-community development was a complete mystery to him. The ensuing confusion ended the moment the mud ceased to flow; what can one say to a yardful...