Word: pour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reach more people more directly than at any time since the defense program got under way. Orders . for arms filter slowly into the spending stream, but purchases for farm products, partly because the Department of Agriculture's Surplus Marketing Administration has long been set up and functioning, can pour out like a flash flood. Half a billion will go for meat, fish, fats, lard - mostly pork. Some $250,000,000 will go for dairy products, another $250,000,000 for poultry and eggs...
...when such affairs ended, and the candidate, even if passed, was in a slough of despond over his showing, Mr. Kittredge, whose own vast strength was accompanied by mersy could pour out grace abounding upon the chief of sinners...
From 4 o'clock this afternoon, when "the avalanche," Leonard's own word, of study cards begins to pour in, until some time along about midnight, he, his assistants, and your study card will be closeted in the faculty room...
...United States has reached the opportunity for a great decision, which may never come again." Denying it had ever been "absolutist in pacifism," the New Republic added: "We were right to hesitate at first. . . . But now we do understand. ... If it is our war enough so that we must pour our material wealth into the scales on one side only, then it is our war to fight as well...
Said Lincoln to the Sixth Massachusetts, who had fought their way through Baltimore: "I don't believe there is any North. The Seventh Regiment is a myth. You are the only Northern realities." Next day reinforcements began to pour...