Word: pouring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gourmets to the last, the newspapers of Paris printed up special menus "pour le grand froid." Their recommendation: plenty of red meat and fresh vegetables. Movie houses and theaters canceled their shows. The hydraulic elevators at the Eiffel Tower refused to work, and even the doughty and haughty clochards (the hobos of Paris) sought shelter in the stations of their ancient enemies, the police...
...carved woods and ivories from the China mainland (only a mile away), roasted whole pigs, tin bathtubs, hollowed-tree coffins, ancient cures compounded of dried sea horses, centipedes, lizards and snakes. Yet more than 1,500 workshops and factories, many of them new and equipped with modern Western machinery, pour forth a cascade of flashlights, rubber shoes, bicycles and cheap cottons for the marketplaces of Southeast Asia. The colony consists of 391 sq. mi.; most of it-a 356-sq.-mi. mainland area called the New Territories-is leased from China until 1997. But the overwhelming mass of people live...
...will keep building for future markets without letup. Merely to keep pace, industry will lay out a record sum for new plants and equipment in 1956. The forecast: $33 billion, $5 billion more than in 1955. Example: the Southern Co., which controls utility companies in four Southeastern states, will pour $220 million into 88 new power projects...
...special correspondents). His domain is a major part of our news service, which operates more Teletype circuits than any other single publishing concern, and rates among the top four news agencies of the world. Time Inc.'s 130 correspondents and 282 stringers throughout the U.S. and the world pour almost 1,000,000 words per issue into our New York offices. This massive coverage by our own reporters supplements some 1,794,000 words from other news agencies; it gives our editors detailed research and guidance, which in turn give a TIME story its breadth, depth and significance...
Empathy. In Los Angeles, when complaints about property-tax hikes began to pour into the county tax-collector's office. Assistant Assessor R. E. Bouck nervously warned his staff not to further inflame taxpayers by displaying "undue hilarity" in corridors or public elevators...