Word: seeps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...justify it. Even at unquiet stalemate-and occasionally in conditions of local accommodation between Viet Cong and government commanders-the Delta war has long been yielding up to a fourth of the enemy's losses each month. And the enemy's manpower squeeze has already begun to seep down into the Delta, making it more than ever ripe for American thrusting. Not long ago the government captured an unprecedented 55 soldiers of the main force So Trang battalion, once one of the Viet Cong's finest. Among them was a boy of only 14, and the average...
Least & Last. The effects of the Federal Reserve's move will seep into different sectors of the complex U.S. economy at varying speeds. Now that bankers must pay ½% more for the money that they borrow from the Federal Reserve System, they will pass that cost along first to their biggest customers: businessmen. Actually, many banks have already been collecting close to 5% by cutting down the number of those eligible for the prime rate; now they will tend to up that rate by another ½% to many of their customers. Since interest costs are tax deductible, few businessmen...
Hardly a drop escapes the notice of the country's watchers. When the seas begin to seep into fresh-water wells near Tel Aviv, engineers pump fresh water into rock cavities between the wells and the sea, building up a barrier against seawater intrusion. Since agriculture is Israel's heaviest user of water, Israeli scientists are systematically searching for the answer to a question that has plagued farmers throughout history: How much water does each crop actually need? Using radioactive tracer materials, American-born Soil Physicist Daniel Hillel is keeping track of irrigation water as it enters...
...threw open the windows and doors of the church to let in fresh air without worrying about?or even fully understanding?the consequences. By contrast, Paul is a detached and painstakingly analytical technician who has left the windows open?but who keeps checking the thermometer lest any cold drafts seep in. Pius was one of Catholicism's great teachers, whose irrepressible flow of decisive allocutions ranged learnedly from astronomy to midwifery. Paul, who sees more than 1,000,000 visitors a year and delivers as many as eight speeches a day has matched Pius' rapid pace. Yet he also shares...
...were going to be?discussing civic centers, working, shopping and living centers?that sort of thing," recollects Eames. "It was all quite new, and we were full of hope for the pastures. We were all gliding out of town on the freeways. But Ed Bacon looked at the first seep of city rot and saw the real crisis." After leaving Cranbrook in 1936, Bacon served for two years as a city planner in nearby Flint, then landed a job back in Philadelphia as managing director of the Philadelphia Housing Association. It was one of the earnest but powerless organizations that...