Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Amid a torrent of abuse, the police whisked the head man, one "Professor" Arturo Rogelio Ferrari, and his students off to the station. It was quite a haul: two lawyers from Bolivia, a literature professor from Ecuador, a schoolteacher from Caracas, another from Panama, a tailor from Colombia, a seamstress from Peru, a mason frorrwltaly. All were following a six-month course that had started four months before. All lived in strict discipline. Reveille was at 6 a.m. to the strains of the Soviet Air Force march. The "students" studied Latin American politics and economics, the place of women...
Boot Polish. Two quicksilver Indian kids named Baby Naaz and Rattan Kumar, as slum orphans in Bombay, pour out such a torrent of acting virtuosity that a slender fable becomes touched with the glow of a minor masterpiece (TIME, Sept...
Boot Polish. Two quicksilver Indian kids named Baby Naaz and Rattan Kumar, as slum orphans in Bombay, pour out such a torrent of acting virtuosity that a slender fable becomes touched with the glow of a minor masterpiece (TIME, Sept...
...double the country's standard of living in ten years. In seven years, Iraq's per-capita income has advanced from $84 to $140. But this slow progress against immense poverty, illness and illiteracy had to contend constantly with the cries of Arab nationalism, the eroding torrent of abuse and incitement to revolt that poured from Cairo Radio, and the intrigues of Nasser-minded army officers...
...voice on a loudspeaker began a countdown. An engineer in a timbered bunker pressed a button; from the explosive-mined dam a yellow curtain of debris belched upward toward the thunderheads. Deliberately, the blasted dam crumbled, and muddy water poured through, first in a thick stream, then in a torrent...