Word: flowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occurs one evening when Paul and Adriana dine in a local restaurant named appropriately enough, the Middle of the World. The name, Paul tells his desire, derives from the position of the town on the water line dividing Europe in half. North of the watershed, he says, all rivers flow into the North Sea; south of the divide, they flow into the Mediterranean. Poised between the warm Latin countries on the one hand and the chill Teutonic lands on the other, the town belongs to neither--it lies in the middle of an uncommitted, non-involved world...
...have cut sales even more severely. Within the Common Market, pressure from French winegrowers suffering from two years of overproduction led the government in March to restrict imports of cheap Italian wine; at one point some 300 irate viticulteurs occupied the cathedral at Montpellier, refusing to budge until the flow of wine from Italy was stopped. The ban, however, was lifted a month...
...Yale selection process allows for ongoing admission to the Law Journal, but Wilson said it has drawbacks because of a varying flow of manpower...
Where lovely mermaids flow...
Critics of the dam point out that it has obstructed the natural flow of silt that enriched the soil of farms along the Nile. Thus it has been necessary to increase the use of imported chemical fertilizers on farms downstream from the dam. Environmentalists also contend that elimination of the silt flow has increased the rate of erosion along the Mediterranean coast adjoining the Nile Delta. In addition, they claim that the absence of the organic matter in the silt in the waters at the river's mouth has deprived sardines and shrimp of an adequate food supply...