Word: pouring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long) had electric lights and hand-drawn cars in which Gladstone, Disraeli and Queen Victoria rode on sightseeing trips. Then the British War Office, aided by the London Times, killed the channel tunnel. England, they warned, would be an island no longer; some enemy might grab the tunnel and pour troops through it. By 1884 the British stopped digging, and nothing has been done since then, although there is no doubt about the tunnel's feasibility. The two pilot tunnels are still there, each of them watched by a single man and as dry as when the good
...this change is due to the new machinery: the clanking bulldozers that knock down forests, the great draglines that claw house-sized holes at a single scoop, the cranes, jumbos, earth movers, power shovels, trenchers and dozens of other mechanical giants that lay pipelines, tunnel through mountains, and pour concrete for dams with the ease of a man putting down a sidewalk. But the biggest part of the change is the revolution in construction thinking; today, there is almost no project too big to tackle, no reasonable limit to reshaping the earth to make it more productive. Only 70 years...
There is no doubt about what the defense and attack can do. Down South, Phil Waring, Monk Aiello, and Ed Curtis proved they could pour in goals against the nation's strongest defenses--except for Navy. Curtis surprised by tallying two more than Waring, last year's top scorer in the nation, and Aiello matched Curtis knack at setting them up. Lolli Coburn, Don Davidoff, John Lane, and John Taylor provided the reserve power lacking last year...
...Information Director of the pro-McCarthy Sentinel voted against the Harvard team's conclusion to outnumber the debate coach from a neighboring town who cast an affirmative ballot. The Harvard men appeared more relaxed when the doors to the auditorium were unlocked and the crowd began to pour out. As the photographers snapped flash shots the Marquette debate coach rushed up to the rostrum...
Once listed officially as a deb, the new blossom has only to sit back and wait for the invitations to pour in. During a mad period of flowering that lasts for three months, her mornings are spent in beauty sleep, her afternoons and evenings at a never-ending round of teas, dinners and balls, her nights at nightclubs. A shrewd father can cut the upkeep for the season down to as low as ?1,000, but many a deb runs up the tabs to well over...