Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Approved by both Pakistan's Constituent Assembly and India's Parliament, the agreement outlined plans to protect the rights of minority peoples and to punish any who violated those rights. The mere signing of the agreement created a calm among both Moslems and Hindus, so that the torrent of refugees which swelled during recent communal riots (TIME, April 10) slowed to a trickle. Some of the refugees began to go back home, where the agreement assures them the return of any property they may have left behind. Said Nehru: "We have stopped ourselves at the edge...
...argue with a river, said the Secretary of State: it is going to flow. You can dam it or damn it, put it to useful purposes or divert it, but you can't argue with it. The U.S., Dean Acheson said, was through trying to argue with the torrent of Communism. "Therefore," he said, "we go to work ... to change those situations of weakness so that they won't create opportunities for fishing and opportunities for. trouble . . . We are trying to extend the area of possible agreement with the Soviet Union by creating situations so strong that they...
...Almost as soon as Soekarno arrived at the palace, a torrent of Indonesians surged through the gates onto the lawn. Others enthusiastically kicked the slats from, a wooden picket fence and poured in unchecked. In a matter of minutes, the sprawling, mile-wide Koningsplein in front of the palace was an unbroken expanse of brown faces...
Once he sounded a note strangely akin to modesty: "Do not think of my plays as Oklahomas averaging $120,000 a week or else flopping. My audiences are more or less select and . . . seldom average capacity." But elsewhere in his torrent of advice, the old man sounded reassuringly Shavian: "I rank a revival of Caesar and Cleopatra as the nearest thing . . . to a gilt-edged security...