Word: poured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inland waterways in Hupeh, winding through rivers and lakes, famous for their river pirates, were transformed by war into one of China's most important smuggling networks. Cloth, medicine, cigarets and cotton pour through these channels from provinces as far distant as Chekiang, Anhwei, Kiangsu. Now Japan's troops straddle these inland waterways. To cut traffic entirely, they have to advance only 20 miles more, to Santouping's fortifications...
...searchlight bridge opens up now, and the wallowing hulk of the U-boat is clearly outlined in the glare. It shudders and rocks as the three-inch shells pour into it at the water line. Everybody on the cutter is yelling like a madman. Up forward you can see the Negro crew of number five gun, working like a machine, and grinning all the while. They throw the shells into the gun in a steady stream-the fastest gun crew on the cutter. And their lips move as they pour hot steel into the submarine. They're singing...
International General Electric Co. is planning to pour some $10 million into new Brazilian electrical manufacturing plants. But I.G.E.'s president, able, 64-year-old Clark Haynes Minor, who knows the world as well as many a U.S. businessman knows his own country, claims that the new plants will expand, not retard, I.G.E.'s flow of exports from the U.S. to Brazil...
...were cooking something in boiling water and wanted to hurry, you should (a) increase the heat so the water would boil more rapidly, (b) put a cover on the pot (c) pour off some water, (d) use an airtight cooker...
...Small Boy. While Giants Boykoff (17 points) and Komenich (20 points) battled each other almost to a standoff, Sailors was all over the court, again & again drove like a P-38 through the St. John's team to pour the ball through the basket. With two minutes to play, St. John's, eight points behind, seemed beaten. But it was not quite...