Word: poured
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jungle to re-form and count the cost. It is very high: about 3,500 killed, between 4,000 and 9,000-wounded. They have cracked the northern rim, but have not broken the main defenses of Dienbienphu. They have knocked out Dienbienphu's two airstrips, but supplies pour in and wounded move out in a motley armada of helicopters and transports that parachute their cargoes. For the French, the cost is not small - about 1,200 killed, wounded or missing - and the respite in infantry fighting brings no respite from the nerve-racking devil's clockwork...
...Opera Tenor Jussi Bjoerling materialized from amphibians that made 40 nights in and out. Other guests, before and since: Danny Kaye, the Countess of Leicester, Brenda Frazier Kelly. All applauded what the ghost and Wenner-Gren had wrought. Much bucked up, the white-haired financier decided last week to pour another $1,500,000 into Andros Town this year, and as much as $10 million eventually...
...large parabaloid bowl on which the outlines of the continents are raised. The bowl is set on a drive shaft that rotates it rapidly and evenly, while from four sides a battery of Kenmore vacuum cleaners blows a steady supply of "trade winds" late the hemisphere. The procedure into pour water into the bottom of the rotating parabaloid while centrifical force spreads it into an even sheet that covers the whole surface, forming the oceans. Dye is then poured into the water to make any water motion visible. As the dye spreads, a remarkable pattern begins to form. Soon...
...love for the U.S. (he worked and studied in Philadelphia from 1912 to 1919), he could not understand why his affection was not more warmly reciprocated. "The U.S. takes its best friends for granted," he said. "You won't even give us arms, and yet you pour billions into European countries which don't appreciate your generosity. What advantage do we get from being friendly? You treat us like an old wife. We would rather be treated like a young mistress...
...nations which engage in it. Certainly there would be no such trade if those nations could do without it. If they were deprived of it, their war efforts in Malaya and Indo-China would be impaired or altogether barred, and America would either have to assume these burdens itself, pour more financial aid into England and France, or risk the loss of those vital Asian areas...