Word: flowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...band will strike up Happy Days Are Here Again, the party leaders will clasp hands in the traditional victory salute. Banners will wave, rhetoric will flow. When the Democrats meet next week in San Francisco to nominate a ticket for the 1984 election, they will strive mightily to stage a tableau of unity and shared purpose...
L.B.J.'s Great Society gave the welfare state a mighty push. In the 1960s, benefit checks began to flow out of Washington in a stream that soon became a torrent: a nationwide food-stamp program, rent supplements for the poor, scholarships for college students, federal grants for the arts, Medicare, Medicaid, higher pensions for federal employees and veterans, subsidized low-income housing, aid to handicapped children. Despite Johnson's intention to help the helpless, middle-and even upper-income groups climbed aboard...
...Marine who liked to tell his guest victims to "go gargle with razor blades." He perfected his brand of radio ridicule in Los Angeles in the early 1960s, then carried it to syndicated television later in the decade, when hippies and antiwar protesters offered him a steady flow of irresistible targets. A generation of Pyne clones were soon imitating his snarl at other stations around the country, and for a time the style flourished. But Pyne died in 1970, and the popularity of his percussive style declined during the low-key 1970s. The 1980s have witnessed a comeback of sorts...
...Like other citizens, these respondents apparently view the tide of illegal immigration, rightly or wrongly, as a threat to both the jobs and wages available to legal residents. Also like other citizens, many of them worry about the capacity of the U.S. to absorb, economically and socially, an uncontrolled flow of aliens. Says Congressman Green: "The bill is not a cureall, but it's better than what we have now." -By George J. Church. Reported by Carolyn Lesh and Neil MacNeil/Washington, with other bureaus
...accident occurs, they are likely to lose. A car bicycle collision might scratch a car's paint job, but it will do a lot more than scratch the bicyclist's face. Bikes are hard for drivers to see, and weaving in and out of traffic or moving against the flow is practically begging...