Word: flows
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...European partner De Gaulle and cut off from Washington by U.S. campaign-time preoccupations, der Alte had taken to Macmillan during their Bonn meeting last August and vastly admired Macmillan's leonine stand against Communism at the U.N. But in the private correspondence that had begun to flow copiously between the two men, there was no hint in Macmillan's last letter that he was about to go hallooing off again for the delectable mountains. "The British," said a Bonn diplomat sadly, "just don't understand how to treat the Germans...
...Charmed Circle." Soapy owed much of his continuing success to Republican arrogance, ineptness, lack of leadership. A 1952 split between Eisenhower and Taft factions died hard. General Motors subsequently supported a conservative wing, while the Fords boosted the liberals. Some big contributors from the auto industry slowed their cash flow when the Republicans began to lose elections.*A determined band of G.O.P. greybeards in the state senate gave the party a black name. They fought free polio vaccine for children, opposed spending bills for education and mental health, blocked efforts to revamp the state industrial code, which was written...
...from the Chicago headquarters of Montgomery Ward last week began to flow 5,500,000 Christmas catalogues that tantalized customers-and irked competitors. Prices have been cut an average 7.8% below those in the last catalogue. Portable typewriters have been slashed from $119.50 to $107.75, electric shavers from $20.57 to $17.95, some bicycles from $32.95 to $29.88. Bigger cuts have been made in toys. Said an excited executive of competing Sears, Roebuck, which immediately rushed out a lower-priced supplement to its Yule catalogue: "They're giving the business away...
...beach and artificial lagoon, and started work on his Hawaiian Village Hotel. In short order, he built 70 thatch-roofed units, a million-dollar 100-room hotel, a 1,000-seat convention hall, a 14-story, 260-room Ocean Tower, an aluminum dome for the convention over flow, and a $1.5 million, 13-story hotel. Now being finished are a pair of $5 million, 17-story hotels called the Diamond Head Towers, which will give the Hawaiian Village more rooms (1,600) than any other hotel in Hawaii. Kaiser plans to raise the total to 5,000 when business justifies...
...added reflectively, "They were a tense and peculiar family, the Oedipuses, weren't they?" Virginia Woolf's stream-of-consciousness technique irritated him: "All of us have a stream of consciousness; we are never without it-the most ordinary and the most gifted. And through that stream flows much that is banal, tedious, nasty, insufferable, irrelevant. But some of us have the taste to let it flow by." After reading Lawrence of Arabia's translation of the Odyssey, Max, who pursued stylistic perfection like a grail, wrote: "I would rather not have been that translator than have...