Word: flowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than the drivers they curse so spitefully. Although it is common knowledge that bicycles are subject to all the same traffic laws that care are: these rules are so rarely enforced that no one pays them any heed. Bikes rolling along the wrong side of the avenue, against the flow of traffic on a one-way street or through stoplights are common sights...
...Reagan Administration has long claimed that many of the arms used by rebel forces in El Salvador are supplied by the Marxist-led Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. Washington justifies its support of the antigovernment contra forces largely as a way to stanch this flow. Last week a former CIA analyst made the unsettling charge that for the past three years the agency has been unable to produce hard evidence that such shipments are still occurring...
...send additional to lurk near U.S. shores. The display abroad has been by a tightening of control at including efforts to silence Nobel Prize Recipient Andrei Sakharov The Kremlin has more than matched its deeds with angry, at times hysterical, A veritable Niagara of insults and threats continues to flow from the pages of Pravda and the tickers of TASS. The Reagan Administration is accused of plotting "covert subversive activities and terrorism," engaging in a "campaign of blackmail and threats," and "thinking in terms of war and acting accordingly...
Mexico, the source of an annual flow of about 3 million people to the U.S., faces its own "silent invasion" of illegal immigrants. Over the past four years, 100,000 Guatemalans have fled their country to settle in the south Mexican state of Chiapas. The influx has caused serious tensions with Guatemala, brutally reminding Mexico that it cannot remain immune to the violence and instability that pervade Central America. To alleviate the problem, the Mexican government last week began to move 4,500 refugees from camps in the border area to federal lands in Campeche, some 120 miles...
...proclaimed people's painter, he roams the streets on his battered motorcycle, white beard flying, paintbox strapped on his back, searching for subjects. He relishes getting caught up fitfully in the lives of the students, prostitutes, policemen and tourists who gather around his easel. He goes where the flow carries him, down to explore unused tunnels under Paris or off to join some young Americans on an outing in Spain. His paintings, when he manages to sell any, fetch only a few hundred dollars, yet somehow he supports a wife and five children, two of whom attend stateside universities...