Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hardest-hit areas were the southern tier of New York, Pennsylvania and the Virginia coast. Dikes broke in Richmond, flooding 200 blocks of the central city. Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, was virtually cut off by the floodwaters from the Susquehanna, where the river flow was put at 550 billion gallons a day-the highest in nearly two centuries of record keeping. Governor Milton Shapp's $2.4 million executive mansion was flooded to its first-floor ceiling. Electric power failed; hospitals resorted to emergency generators. With roads, railways and the air port under water, President Nixon chose the only...
...very personable, he nonetheless was respected for his tenacious concern for the welfare of his men. When he arrived, the North Vietnamese were well along within their borders on the massive buildup for last April's all-out offensive. Lavelle's air reconnaissance crews provided a regular flow of reports and photographs chronicling its progress. A veteran Air Force "tiger" who flew 76 combat missions in World War II, Lavelle, 55, decided he could not sit idly by while Hanoi continued to assemble its war machine. So he made the extraordinary decision to take matters into...
...Paris street. That is action we would see only from the corner of our eye; yet he captures it permanently. His picture is not rigidification of the mobile; it is an entrapment of motion. Analogously, in Ansel Adams' monumental scenic pictures, the world stops for human time to flow...
...historic Big Four agreement signed two weeks ago in West Berlin guarantees the unimpeded flow of goods and travelers between the former German capital and West Germany, 110 miles away. TIME'S Kenneth Danforth was one of the first motorists to test the new arrangements. He found...
...grand jury's inquiry, this would not justify his refusals to answer," the court wrote. And it decided further that "the reason for the claimed (scholarly) privilege lies not in the importance of protecting the officials and other sources per se but in the importance of preserving the flow of their communications via scholars to the public domain. This underlying rationale falls short of immunizing a scholar from testifying about conversations with those who are not his sources...