Word: flowingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lodge's instructions flow from the State Department's Bureau of International Organization Affairs, headed by Assistant Secretary Francis O. Wilcox. For any U.N. question that can be foreseen, the Wilcox Bureau prepares "position papers," checks them out with other federal agencies concerned-Defense Department, Atomic Energy Commission, etc. After approval by Dulles and Eisenhower, a position paper becomes a statement of U.S. policy. In keeping with this written policy, Wilcox & Co. draft explicit instructions; if they call for introduction of a U.S. resolution, a draft is included...
...Flows. From that fabled city, each day brought a new promise of reform. The government drew up a provisional constitution with an article specifically aimed at cutting up vast farmlands now owned by some 60 sheiks, who were the backbone of Nuri's regime. The rebels abolished the anachronistic tribal courts that would, for a fee, give tribesmen a far softer kind of justice than would a regular court. Dramatically, the rebels also announced that work would cease on Feisal's new $20 million "palace," which was actually to be an administration building with only comparatively moderate accommodations...
Salzburg, where he watched his father serve as sacristan. The boy was fascinated by the flow of robes and the carefully poised stance of church dignitaries. At seven he tried to translate his impressions into clay figures, remembers: "I knew then I wanted to be a sculptor...
Last week, as Carter's files describing the outward calm of revolution's aftermath started to flow out of Baghdad, his rivals were still scrambling to get into Iraq as best they could. Correspondent Daniel F. Gilmore and Photographer Dieter Hespe of United Press International, and NBC's Tom Streithorst, hired a Beirut taxi to drive them the 620 miles between Beirut and Baghdad. When their driver quit at the Syrian border, they hitched a ride on a Syrian potato truck, got another taxi in Damascus. They bought off suspicious Lebanese rebels with cigarettes and bottles...
...steadiest thing about the Middle East last week was the oil flow. Aside from a moderate jump in tanker charter rates and a flurry of ship sales which in three weeks boosted prices 10-20%, all was calm. Iraq's revolutionary government took pains to assure Western oilmen that it would honor all contracts, would not only maintain oil production but try to increase it. The British-French-American-owned Iraq Petroleum Co. welcomed this feeling of sweet reasonableness, but in common with oilmen everywhere took it with a pinch of salt...