Word: flows
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shacks are built on stilts and often are constructed from sheets of rolled beer cans. One family lives with hundreds of Miller High Life emblems as the facade of its house, while a neighbor may prefer the hues of Pabst Blue Ribbon or Budweiser. Beneath many of these dwellings flow canals whose black waters reek of raw, pungent sewage. In the shacks, which have no electricity and little furniture, adults and children sleep side by side in a single room usually measuring no more than 8 ft. by 10 ft. Even so, they are lucky. Other residents of Saigon...
There was another reason why he could not stay. The day after the signing ceremony, Aug. 1 3, was the ninth anniversary of the building of the Wall. It cut off the flow of East Germans trapped within the Stalinist satrapy of Walter Ulbricht, whose regime even today is based on the presence of 20 Soviet divisions...
...concrete pathway about twelve feet wide. Ordinary rails have been replaced by two L-shaped aluminum guide strips (see diagram). As the train's speed increases, the magnets on the underside of the cars act like the moving armatures of an electrical generator, causing currents to flow in the aluminum strips. These currents, in turn, bu:ld magnetic fields of their own. Just as like poles of ordinary horseshoe magnets repel each other, so do the train's superconductive magnets repel their magnetic "mirror images" in the aluminum strips. In this way the train can be lifted...
...negotiations proceed successfully, the most plausible scenario is that Israel will relinquish the bulk of the territories it conquered in the Six-Day War in return for ironclad guarantees that the Arab states will accept Israel's existence. From such an agreement, a number of benefits might ultimately flow: the reopening of the Suez Canal, a solution to the problem of the Palestinian refugees, Arab-Israeli cooperation in the development of the desert, even a Middle East Common Market...
...common and unfortunate diagnosis of many aged people is that they are senile, a catchword for a number of conditions. There may be organic brain damage - for example, the brain may run short of oxygen because of impaired blood flow. But many of the "senile" actually have psychological problems. One 70-year-old retired financier, who insisted on calling his successor at the company all the time and had all sorts of paranoid suspicions, was diagnosed as having organic brain disease. A combination of psychotherapy and a new job as treasurer of a charitable organization helped the man to recover...