Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...torrent of analytical advice that pours from Wall Street is hardly noted for its literary style, much less its wit. "We send a great deal of literature to our clients-most of it deadly dull," says Sidney Homer, 65, research partner of Salomon Bros. & Hutzler, one of the Street's largest bond dealers. Last week, however, Salomon Bros, was mailing its clients something different: a privately published book of Homer's needling sallies at the very serious world of bond investment...
...just the opposite from the technique of modern re alism, in which the actors are supposed to play to each other as if there were no audience at all." Kabuki also goes in for exaggerated emotions. "When a few tears were called for," Clurman explains, "I would get a torrent. When a character should be moved, he would go into hysterics. I constantly had to tell them to be natural...
...forces that affect cities, the interstate highway program, 90% financed by federal funds, has been the least controlled. And yet today, those wide concrete corridors play as vital a role in shaping cities as once was played by rivers. Undirected, highways smash and crash through whole neighborhoods, debouch a torrent of autos into already traffic-choked streets. Owings' team, which includes engineers, traffic and transit consultants as well as architects, intends to wield its power to direct Interstate 95's path through Baltimore as delicately as a surgeon's scalpel, avoiding historic areas, living organic communities and parks, while improving...
...reflected back to the opposite mirror. As they bounce back and forth along the rod, they stimulate other chromium atoms into emitting photons (see diagram, p. 49). When the chromium atoms that are in an excited state become more plentiful than those that are not, a torrent of photons bursts through the partially transparent mirror at one end of the rod in a brief but intense pulse of red light, vastly more powerful than the flash that triggered...
...fact, so much has happened in the past eight months, let alone eight years, that many old assumptions about the strengths and weaknesses of parties, policies and personalities are now invalid. More than in most election years, the torrent of change has made for clean political slates, giving the candidates an unusual opportunity to write their credentials big and bright. In this sense, they are all caught up in new politics...