Word: flows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kollontay has had to spend most of the past year in Mosseberg sanatorium, gaining strength after a stroke. Last Nov. 7, when the Russian Revolution which she helped to make was 26 years old, a river of people took 45 minutes to flow up the legation's broad stairway and pass Her Excellency in her wheelchair. About once a year a rumor spreads that Kollontay has been summoned home to answer for her sumptuous way of life. Just as often she has returned to her villa in the Villagatan. A lovely holiday, she blandly reports...
...bomb must hit within four feet of an above-ground length of pipe to put it out of operation. If it does, pressure gauges locate the rupture, pumping stations stop the flow, and repairs can be made in a few minutes...
...year is the night when he covers them. That is at the White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner. It is the only wartime dinner the President attends outside the White House. Some of the correspondents' editors show up to pat their backs, the drinks flow swiftly, the Fourth Estate has itself a time. Last week it all happened again. But 37 White House reporters stayed away. The reason: they wear skirts...
...were therefore committed to a frontal advance in an extremely mountainous country which gave every advantage to the defense. All rivers flow at right angles to our advance and violent rains often turn these rivers in a few hours into raging torrents, thus sweeping away all military bridges . . and sometimes leaving part of the assaulting force committed to attack on the far side and beyond reach of immediate support...
...that any piece of writing can be improved by extracting every seventh word, like a tooth. We have occasionally been embarrassed to see our stuff after it has undergone alterations. . . . Mostly, however, we object to the Digest's indirect creative function, which is a threat to the free flow of ideas and to the independent spirit...