Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...river roll over most of the tea city of Dibrugarh (pop. 23,000), in the hills of Assam. Back on land, he shook off his nervous aides and went striding across rickety bamboo bridges to watch sawmills, temples, schools and homes collapse and vanish into the muddy torrent. Once a great mass of earth crashed down only 20 feet from him, but Nehru was unhurt...
...province, the Communists acknowledged that 106,000 volunteers had been called out to strengthen an "impregnable" water-retention project. At one Yangtze point, according to Radio Peking, 200 soldiers and 10,000 peasants formed a great human wall with mats on their backs, and managed to stand off the torrent for three hours. "People are confident," cried Peking's New China News Agency nervously, "that everything has been foreseen. There will be no panic, no hunger, nothing like the bad old days when there was no help from above...
...after the war, Boeing went into a dizzying tailspin. The torrent of contracts dried to a trickle, and production lines slowed down. As a final blow, Boeing President Philip Gustav Johnson, hard-driving engineer who had piloted Boeing through the war years, died suddenly late in 1944, and Boeing was without a chief...
Then through the diving digger's mind runs a torrent of history. Sometimes he knows the names of the merchant princes who shipped the jug of wine. He knows the temple, now disappeared, for which a cargo of marble columns was intended. He wonders, while the brilliant fish flutter around his head, why one Fadius Musa, a rich merchant of ancient Narbonne, loaded his ship so heavily with marble that the sea dragged it down...
High in the Austrian Alps, melting snow cascades in a great torrent down the sides of the Reiffeck and Kreuzeck Mountains. Why not, thought the Austrian government, harness this energy for power? Austria could use it in its reconstruction, and the surplus could be sold to northern Italy's heavy industries. There was just one problem: Where would Austria get the money to build a hydroelectric plant? Last week Austrian Ambassador to the U.S. Karl Gruber went to the place that could help supply the funds. He marched into the office of Eugene R. Black, president of the World...