Word: flows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dazzling mixture. The oldest field commander of any Allied army in Europe (he will be 60 next Armistice Day), Patton is still tigerish in action. On the field he shouts orders in a high-pitched voice. He can rawhide a private or a lesser general with a flow of profanity that is perhaps the richest in all the hard-swearing U.S. armies. A moment later he can be gently lifting a wounded man from a tank, calming him with soothing words...
Partly to blame was the U.S. engineer who designed the water system, not dreaming that the city would grow from 332,000 to half a million in seven years. But Bogota boosters were not in a mood to boast. Only the local temperance leaguers felt like rejoicing: the flow of workingmen's chicha (corn beer) was also drying...
Practical Tories. Few of the plans are Woolton's own. Most are the distilled product of many minds, but Woolton channeled and coordinated the flow of ideas and gave them practical character. His self-confident experience drew the blueprints that might well prove to be Britain's footprints of the future...
...Plant Corp.). Its obvious hurry to get into production has two prime causes, beyond Government needs: 1) so long as the war lasts, the Government will buy all of Puget Sound's output, but thereafter the mill will have to compete in a civilian market against the vast flow of more cheaply produced grain and molasses alcohol; 2) the ever-thirsty U.S. is rushing completion of a bigger, $2,000,000 alcohol plant for the potent Willamette Wood Chemical Co. of Springfield...
...dawn when the cavalcade began to flow into the rendezvous, a native village. There ambulances and trucks were waiting. The prisoners walked and rode between lines of curious infantrymen. They tried to be casual. They said, "Hi, Yanks," and hoped no one noticed that their voices quavered. They tried to give officers the regulation salute and to keep a soldierly bearing...