Word: flowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wall of coal is a continuous coal mining machine called "the beast." The machine's whirling blades chew into the seam with a roaring noise like an avalanche, spewing chunks of coal back into waiting coal cars, which are equipped with robot-like "gathering arms" that channel the flow. The load is then trundled back along the tracks and automatically unloaded onto a conveyor-belt system that lifts the coal to the surface...
During the past month, some 45,000 Americans have received thank-you cards from the residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. The President and his wife were responding to the extraordinary flow of sympathy and encouragement in messages to the White House since Betty Ford's cancer operation...
...last week, had formed. Hickman said later that he could "readily palpate [feel]" the clot during the operation. The teeth of the clip (called a Miles clip, after the physician who invented it in 1962) were closed, creating a sluicelike effect that permits blood-but not large clots-to flow through six small apertures...
This is not to say that Old Times is undramatic. Pinter's, and his characters', absorption with words may supersede movement to a great extent, but the ebb and flow of psychic combat are clearly and forcefully embodied in the interaction. Psychological climaxes are not merely talked about--they take place before...
...book, Wishes, Lies and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry, a collection of kids' poems prefaced by some lengthy remarks on teaching. I was intrigued with Koch's central idea: people's imaginations are more readily available to them when they are young; it's important to tap that flow before it is turned off. A teacher of writing and performance of poetry at Radcliffe, Ruth Whitman, once wrote--and Koch would agree--that children "are still close to the elemental sources, they are naturally honest, their mythmaking and imagemaking apparatus is close at hand." These seemed incontrovertible truths when...