Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encouraging, the President faced a torrent of Senate criticism when he sent planes to aid the Mobutu regime in the Congo...
...Dead End. The problem of moving this vast torrent of people between cities is difficult enough. But the real headache is handling the flow from city to airport and in the airports themselves. As William Pereira, master planner for the Los Angeles Airport Commission, puts it: "The real bottleneck in the jet age is not in the air but on the ground. We must break the ground barrier...
...Cambodia. When the Americans brushed into a small knot of the Communist forces, they pursued their quarry up a muddy hillside in the jungle near Dak To, seven miles from where the frontiers of Cambodia, Laos and South Viet Nam meet. The U.S. troops were led right into a torrent of machine-gun fire from 30 sandbagged bunkers atop the slope. By the time the shooting ended, 25 Americans had been killed and 35 wounded. Other Americans took the hill unopposed the next day, found nine Communist dead...
Down upon arid Aden last week poured a torrent of rain so great that four-foot floods washed through the streets, cutting electricity and water service, destroying food and-such is the temper of the place-ruining large caches of ammunition stored secretly in many homes. The downpour, the worst in recorded history, delayed for a while the arrival of some distinguished visitors: a three-man team of United Nations observers sent to investigate the difficulties that Aden is experiencing in its transition to independence from Britain in 1968. The visitors might as well have stayed at home. Violence...
Offstage she is a sunny torrent of activity. "I squeak cheerfulness," she says, "in the face of adversity." She carries on an endless correspondence with her family, loves to have a good blub over their letters. To relieve the Manhattany, she often cooks up an enormous meal?one of her favorites is a lamb casserole crammed with raisins, garlic, apples, onions and lemons. She downs yoghurt by the pint, and has been heard to hail a taxi by imitating the shriek of a pewit?which she learned from a Northumbrian shepherd when she was nine years...