Word: poured
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thursday morning 54-year-old Strom Thurmond was still on his feet. Wires from back home began to pour in on other Southerners, demanding that they help Strom Thurmond in his heroic effort. They realized quickly how Thurmond's doublecross had put them on the spot with their constituents. Urgently, angrily, they put in phone calls to home-state newspapers, explaining the harsh facts: Thurmond was not helping the cause; he was playing with dynamite...
...their fight to cut foreign-aid appropriations. House Democrats put on a cloak that was tailor-made for their uncomfortable posture. As onetime champions of mutual assistance and onetime foes of isolationism, they could not use the well-worn cry-"Why pour good U.S. dollars down foreign ratholes?''-against the principle involved...
Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion and others once looked forward to a stream of Jews from the U.S. who would pour into Israel to help the unskilled immigrants from Eastern Europe and Africa build the new country with their American know-how. But even zealous Zionists in the U.S. tended to send money instead-and many felt that their contributions entitled them to a say in Israel's affairs...
...when a flood of new meteorologists and new techniques from the armed forces became available to industry. Now, at fees ranging from $25 for a short-range forecast up to $20,000 for a comprehensive yearly service, dozens of weathermen are telling airlines when to fly, builders when to pour concrete, shipping companies when and where to steam to avoid ocean storms, oil-drilling crews when to evacuate their offshore rigs...
...Correspondent McCulloch began to pour his 30,000-word file into Manhattan, Cover Subject Norman Chandler (a handy man with words himself) asked with a grin: "If you give your editors everything you've got, how many issues of the magazine is it going to take to carry it all?" For the story that carries the sense of it all, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The New World...