Word: churnings
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...these qualities churn together in the play's last scene, which mingles moving speeches and bathos to wind up tangled in a resigned, yet utopian conclusion. The Rain Never Falls is--fatal word--an interesting play...
Near Milk Street in Boston, a fruit peddler keeps his little radio nestled among the purple plums, and startled passers-by always pause to stare at the singing fruit. Small boys on bicycles churn along the roads with radios topped with long whip antennas (they used to carry fishing rods). On a downtown Dallas street recently, pedestrians arched their brows at an open manhole from which floated the ball-game scores. Chinese listeners in San Francisco may soon-if the electronic wrinkles are ironed out-watch the video version of Gunsmoke while their radios blast out a Cantonese translation, courtesy...
...Mier's cabin, where we find that he too has had an unfortunate experience in love but that he, poor devil, has his mother along with him. Mrs. Craig is a little older than John Van Mier, but it would seem that the propellors are finally beginning to churn, all be it slowly and methodically...
...Lawrence Seaway is an engineering masterpiece designed to produce economic miracles. It hasn't quite. In the confident hope that a deepwater channel would churn up an international trading boom in the North American heartland, Canada and the U.S. sank $442 million into the Seaway. Last week, as the Great Lakes shipping season approached its crest (unaffected by the coastal shipping strike), the two-year-old Seaway had lost some of its glamour. Says Milwaukee Port Director Harry C. Brockel: "It hasn't been as spectacular as expected. But then, a lot of people were looking for wonders...
...bubble in each leg-and there, with his improvised float, he bobbed in the black sea. Isbell's lights faded in the distance ("I guess that was about the alonest I ever felt"). For a while, he tried swimming, but every time he moved he would churn up the phosphorescence and worry about sharks...