Word: stream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hemingway has written about: 1) the place that now interests and excites him most, the Gulf Stream near Cuba; 2) a skill he knows and enjoys, big-game fishing; 3) a fundamental contest of life that has always fascinated him: a man of unquestionable courage, character and simple decency pitted against unconquerable natural forces...
...Gulf Stream, 600 feet down, a big marlin takes the bait. Joining his ancient skill to his failing strength, the old man plays him with care and respect. When his adversary leaps from the water for the first time...
...Harry Truman is as embarrassing a campaign problem for the Democrats as Joe McCarthy is for the Republicans. Last week, just by standing pat on his record (and digging in his heels a little), the President squeezed a stream of careful explanations out of his own party's candidate...
Within sight of the searchlights that guard Panmunjom (where the truce talks were still deadlocked last week), men of the U.S. ist Marine Division were fighting bloodily for strategic high ground. A stream of Marine wounded and dead flowed back to the collecting stations, but the Marines claimed enemy casualties higher than their...
Debussy: Pelléas and Melisande (Suzanne Danco, Pierre Mollet, Heinz Rehfuss; L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Ernest Ansermet; London, eight sides LP). Maeterlinck's fairy tale floating along the stream of Debussy's consciousness. The voices of the principals are all excellent and so is their French diction; Ansermet's subtle direction could scarcely be bettered...