Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LUCK OF GINGER COFFEY. Robert Shaw is superb as a big, genial Irishman who swamps his life and his wife (Mary Ure) in a torrent of blarney...
...dreaming child. I tried again: did he not feel the need of some goal to help guide his day-to-day decisions and priorities? Again, a ghastly pause. It was only when I turned the question to immediate, tangible problems that he seized the point and rolled off a torrent of statistics about the difficulty of organizing nations at different levels of economic development...
Glee for Gunfire. The first rounds were warning shots fired ahead of the approaching blips. But at 6,000 yards, when the blips kept closing in, the destroyers began firing for effect. The torrent of impacting 5-in. shells sent spouts of water skyward, creating a whole new set of momentary blips on the radarscopes. The attacking boats disappeared in the welter of the new radar images. When the scopes cleared, only one moving target remained. Neither destroyer spotted torpedoes or answering gunfire, but two lookouts claimed they spotted the bow of a boat. A thorough search of the area...
...Harvard and Radcliffe don't go to bed until 1 or 2 a.m. Neither, so it seems, do the professors; course offerings at this early hour are meager. Mathematics for non-mathematicians (Nat Sci 116) allows students to bridge the two cultures without wetting their feet in a torrent of labs. One of the key problems in modern thought, "Value and Explanation in Social Theory," and some of the key modern thinkers--Kierkagaard, Neitzsche, Dewey, and Mannheim--structure Soc Sci 115. For those whose roomates are so lovable that there is no outlet for hostilities Soc Rel 120 ("Analysis...
...first time in recent memory, flood waters have reached the suburbs of New Delhi. Five thousand troops labored to plug the gaps in the dikes, but they were too late to save Delhi's water system from pollution by night soil and garbage caught up in the torrent. Stomach ailments have jumped 30%, and doctors fear outbreaks of cholera and hepatitis...