Word: pour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meeting in London with the colony's Governor Sir Patrick Muir Renison, Britain's Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd agreed to a new plan that would pour about $58,240,000 into social and economic development in the next five years. The specific points covered by the plan included completion of the 130,000-acre Boerasirie irrigation and drainage project, rebuilding the main road along the seacoast from the Surinam border to Georgetown through rich sugar-and rice-growing areas, completion of a 4,000-unit housing scheme, and rural electrification. More than half the cash...
...followers from Calais to Algiers. By lifting a phone, he can organize a rally in a provincial town 400 miles away, have the region plastered with posters in 48 hours, dispatch two, ten or 20 Assembly Deputies there as if they were errand boys. Every day, new memberships pour into his new offices in downtown Paris, new readers subscribe to his two newspapers...
Lampooning the Vulgar. Powers' talent reaches also outside the rectory. In Blue Island a young suburban housewife's get-acquainted coffee pour turns into a cruel social fiasco when an older woman who has posed as a friend suddenly does a commercial spiel on furniture polish in mid-party, and later presses a collapsible mop on the sobbing hostess as a payoff for the captive customers...
Added to the local problem are the hundreds of thousands of commuters who pour through Cambridge streets daily, often clogging them further by parking and taking the subway to work. Co-ordination between state, metropolitan and local authorities on rerouting this through traffic has been halting at best, and more often non-existent...
...crowned heads and commissars account for only a small proportion of the 50,000,000 pieces that pour each year from Rosenthal's ten plants. In the U.S. alone, Rosenthal estimates, sales in 1955 amounted to nearly...