Word: stream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing-that damn fool is determined to get out of the Army either via the Medal of Honor or death." ¶J Clarence Craft's mother: "He's the most accurate thrower I ever saw. Why, I've seen that boy kill fish in a stream throwing rocks at them, home in Missouri." ¶I The New York Times: "Great must be the rejoicing among all the Clarences of this world...
...Poet, Too. As "Pop," he went off to Hamilton, Mass., to spend the night with his family. But the triumphal tour had just begun. Next day, after an eleven-and-a-half-hour plane flight, he arrived in Denver. Happily profane, he rattled off a stream of characteristic Pattonisms. Sample: he classed himself a "better poet than general." As his plane rolled into its takeoff, Los Angeles bound, he found his hotel key in his pocket, chucked it out, yelling to those on the ground to return...
...wishes to compete economically with centrally directed economic planning on a colossal scale, which has hardly begun as yet to operate, then TIME magazine owes it to the America it believes in to present facts, studies, analyses, objective reporting, and soundly based mature conclusions rather than the stream of adolescent sneers and verbal spitballs in which TIME is now indulging and which does your competent journal no credit whatsoever...
...first trickle became a stream, and by this week upwards of 100,000 men had trooped off the grey ships and out of the big grey airplanes. The great migration of U.S. soldiers from Europe...
Since 1938, an Orinocan stream of distinguished Latin American visitors has debouched into the U.S. The U.S. Government pays their expenses, shows them the sights (chiefly industrial), crams them with information (chiefly factual). Guided by aseptic civil servants, the visitors trudge through endless factories, offices, universities, laboratories, museums; are dined, wined and lectured at official luncheons, dinners, cocktail parties...