Word: flowingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill stipulated that 1) the Defense Secretary's authority must flow through the service secretaries-"legalized bottleneck," said the President; 2) Congress could, in effect, veto Pentagon decisions to transfer major combat functions of the services-''endorsement of duplication and standpattism," said Ike; and 3) each member of the Joint Chiefs and each service secretary had license to deal with Congress "on his own initiative" -"legalized insubordination" to the Commander-in-Chief...
Life on Isle aux Chiens flows along endlessly, and she leaves it just where she found it. It is a pity that Author Grau did not wrap up the island in one of her fine short stories that have the knack of checking a perpetual flow and explaining its course...
...cycles and war are said to be inevitable products. Of course, we know that this is an utterly false view. Nevertheless, two things are true, which we have not yet all learned. First, prosperity, like peace, is indivisible; secondly, there are still too many artificial barriers to the free flow of money and trade in the free world. Just as the economies of the states of the Union of this continent grew together two hundred years ago, so, in some measure at least, must the economies of the free world today...
...banners, soaked their shoes, as they trudged-850 of them in one group, 350 in another-to meet at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard. There the two leaders clasped wet hands, and all raised their voices in a spontaneous doxology: "Praise God from whom all blessings flow . . ." Four abreast, 1,200 strong, they marched through the rain together to celebrate the first Communion of a new church...
...accelerometer or "g meter," which gauges the piling up of gravity forces. In a "g suit" hooked up to an automatic air-compressor system, I felt a giant's fist pressing into my belly, two pairs of giant hands around my thighs and calves, to retard the flow of blood to the feet and reduce the risk of blackout. Belatedly I remembered to try the "M1 maneuver"-tensing the abdominal muscles to reduce the blood drainage still more. The g-meter needle crept up past 2 to 3 and on to 4. My normal 145 lbs. now weighed...