Word: stream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spring came to California in belting, pounding, soaking storms. They swept out of the icy land mass of Siberia, gathered fury and moisture over the Pacific, homed east and southeast along the jet stream, roared in around Marin County's Mt. Tamalpais in 100-m.p.h. gusts. In the first 3½ days of April, San Francisco got 3.96 in. of rain. Normal rainfall for all of April: 1.49 in. Rain cascaded down the city's spectacular slopes, spilled knee-deep into downtown streets. On residential Mt. Sutro a strange sea of mud 100 ft. long...
...achieve-a sort of Europead elaborated out of the decisive events and determining attitudes of World War II. He missed the mark, but with the assistance of Director Edward Dmytryk and Scriptwriter Edward Anhalt. he has produced a broad and swiftly flowing film which carries on its narrative stream two performances-by Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift -of unusually deep draft...
Hopeful of opening direct channels of communication with art movements in the satellite countries, the Whitney Museum had sent some 300 copies of the book overseas addressed to museums and individual artists. From Warsaw and Cracow, Budapest and Szeged, Prague, Zatec and Bucharest came a stream of letters, catalogues, books and even original drawings and engravings from artists who wished to reciprocate the Whitney's gesture. The letters were scrupulously nonpolitical. Nearly all had two points in common: 1) unstinting praise for the book, and 2) surprise that American painting was so good. One Rumanian intellectual, unreported for years...
...accompaniment of a constant stream of anti-Western vituperation from Cairo, as well as the jingle of Egyptian money, El Azhari put on a vigorous, glad-handing campaign. He played upon the anti-religious sentiment of the younger generation by hammering away disdainfully at Premier Khalil's personal devotion to the Moslem cult of aging Abdel Rahman el Mahdi. He lashed out at the Baghdad Pact, accused the Premier of being pro-American, pro-British, and pro-imperialist. While carefully ignoring Nasser's blatant maneuvers to take over the Sudan and his newly asserted claim on more than...
Sputnik Choo-Choo. A space-age toy electric train with an airborne satellite was introduced by Kusan-Auburn Inc. As the train starts, a white ball of styrofoam rises on a steady stream of air from a car with a twin-turbine compressor, floats along one foot above the train until it stops. Other gimmicks: a revolving radar screen, searchlight, laboratory car, four extra satellites. Cost...