Word: flowingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when India and Pakistan separated amid bloodshed that was exceeded in the 20th century only by the two World Wars, a border line was drawn through the Indus valley, and the water squabble began. Prime Minister Nehru protested that Pakistan demanded practically all the canal flow, while vast areas of India were "simply thirsting and panting for water." Pakistan cried that India's huge irrigation and water-development schemes would turn millions of Pakistani acres into a dust bowl. When India abruptly cut off the waters of one canal system for a month, a Pakistani leader threatened invasion, shouted...
...David Lilienthal, onetime chief of the U.S. Tennessee Valley Authority, visited the subcontinent and concluded that while the two nations quarreled over how much water each got, fully 80% of the Indus flow swept unused to the sea. The question was "pure dynamite," Lilienthal noted, and he urged that an extended canal system be "designed, built and operated as a unit," jointly financed by India, Pakistan and the World Bank...
...years of hard work failed to temper nationalistic passions. Suggestion after suggestion fell through; scheme after scheme foundered in a sea of mutual antagonism. Doggedly, the World Bank continued its efforts, and last month in Washington won agreement from India and Pakistan to a fair division of the water flow until March...
...British Admiralty rechristened a fleet refueling ship, formerly H.M.S. Tide-race, which will now sail as H.M.S. Tide Flow. The Admiralty stoutly insisted that the change was made because Tiderace kept being confused with other tankers of similar name; below-decks scuttlebutt was that puckish sailors had insisted on rhyming Tiderace with the monicker of dimpled Schmalz Piano Pounder Liberace...
Virtue in Curves. For Torroja, the beauty of structure grows out of the mathematical laws that express the flow of stresses and tensions. "For the first time in the history of art," says Torroja, "the structure has acquired an independent personality, so that its own intimate esthetic quality can be appreciated...