Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...themselves to a life alone in the rooms of an island fortress off the coast of Sweden. They are a grim pair proceeding through their days with ritual bitterness; only the occasional Morse Code eruptions of the domestic telegraph set and the arrival of the Third Character divert the flow of venom from its daily course...
...television shows, and promotes his radio program to 165 stations. All together, the Roberts empire generates more mail than any other Tulsa concern, including Shell Oil's national credit card office. As indeed it might. One Tulsa banker estimates that Roberts' operations pull in a cash flow of $15 million a year...
There are other uncertainties. The Viet Cong infrastructure, for instance, might not be nearly so weak as is generally assumed. A sudden withdrawal or reduction of U.S. airpower would increase doubts about ARVN's abilities, even if the flow of American supplies and economic support continued. But for the moment, U.S. military men in Saigon and Washington remain reasonably sure that the newly Vietnamized war machine can accomplish its mission: to give the Saigon regime a "reasonable chance" of survival when American troops go home...
...larger context, the triumph over ROTC meant little. At most it gave us a good feeling to have destroyed the crudest connection between our University and the war machine. But our strike did nothing material to slow up the flow of soldiers and pilots to Indochina: faced with loss of certain Ivy schools, the Pentagon quietly moved into colleges which it had previously considered unworthy and revamped its student training programs so that they would not require term-time campus training. And the abolition of ROTC left untouched the many more important ways in which Harvard serves the military. They...
...embarrassed silence sad to say, welcomed my observation. dismissed the point as gracefully as could--it was inanely unrelated, I realized to the flow of the discussion--and my into film appreciation ground...