Word: flows
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...initial stages of the party it dispensed Scotch, but this ran out quickly, leaving Martinis, slivowitz (plum brandy) and orange juice. The flow of these potions, however, was reduced to a mere dribble: the amateur bartenders ran out of glasses. The guests wheeled hungrily toward the buffet. There was no trace of the usual turkeys, Virginia hams, salmon and pâtés which capital partygoers consider their legitimate reward-only fresh-cheeked girls circulating with trays of snippets of homemade sandwiches and tiny pastries...
...outskirts of the project, towns and cities like Aiken, S.C. and Augusta, Ga. set to counting the blessings that would flow when upwards of 25,000 employees went, to work at the giant H-bomb plant. Aiken, which has a population of 7,000 and has been a resort for the wealthy since the 1880s, expected to zoom to a bustling town of 12,000, and already last week, real-estate prices had started to spiral. At Augusta, Ga. (pop. 70,000), the chamber of commerce predicted that the general influx of population and prosperity would be equivalent to moving...
...export controls and other restrictions, the U.S. thought that it had staunched the flow of strategic materials into Communist China and Iron Curtain countries. But last week Maryland's Democratic Senator Herbert O'Conor, who has been looking into Far Eastern shipping (TIME, Oct. 30), found that the ban on such exports was about as effective as a sieve...
...rebellious young intellectuals, it was the resolute opposite of Victorianism. Against Mrs. Grundy's boned corset it set the languid flow of an Aubrey Beardsley tunic. It opposed ice-water morality with the dreggy wine of French "realism." It countered convention with Oscar Wildeish witticisms ("Where is the pleasure of having parents if you may not disobey them"). For common sense it substituted shamelessly overgrown verbiage (" 'Tears, little one,' I said. 'See how they swim like whitebait in the fish-pools of your eyes...
Wilder's two previous lectures on American culture have attracted over-flow audiences at the New Lecture Hall. The playwright's final talk will be delivered on December 6 on the subject "Walt Whitman and the American Loneliness...