Word: stream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bataan Death March has never been more graphically described in print. In a berserk frenzy, the Japanese bayoneted and shot the fallen, walked alongside the marchers with impaled American heads on their bayonets. On the second afternoon, as the bone-weary, mouth-parched prisoners waited alongside a cold, bubbling stream hoping for their first drink of water, one of the men broke ranks and buried his face in the stream. "A Japanese noncom ran up, unsheathing his sword . . . I heard a quick, ugly swish. Before I could realize what had happened, I saw the head roll away in the stream...
...Stream. Promoting private meteorology was for Rossby a kind of decompression period after the war. It was not real science, and he had not forgotten the Rossby waves. Indeed, a startling feature of them had been forcibly impressed upon him during...
When Rossby heard about these winds, he saw at once that they must be associated with the long, high-altitude waves that he had discovered. He named them the "jet stream." After the war he worked out a highly mathematical theory to account for the wind. Now the jet stream is used in the flight-planning of both civil and military airplanes. Its behavior can be predicted to a considerable extent by Rossby's theories...
Regionalism, once a coursing stream in U.S. art, today is a dry ditch, and probably a very good thing too. The astounding vistas of the opening West have become familiar to a nation on wheels; most regional art has degenerated into picturesque views suitable for sale to tourists at roadside stands. Art viewers have come to expect more from artists than a pleasant rendering of a sunset over the Grand Canyon or the pine-studded shores of Rockport...
Instead of concentrating on the narration of an improbable stream of consciousness, Guthrie might better focus on the scene in which his characters act. This is a book about a rancher, yet one learns nothing about ranching. The reader also misses the lonely magnificence of the land, which grips its inhabitants so profoundly. It is almost as if Guthrie has never traveled through some of the country about which he writes...