Word: stream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble was spelled out: the Constellation's left inboard engine was out of control, could conceivably shake the engine loose from its mount. Veteran Pilot Luis F. Plata, 39, had tried vainly to feather the prop, i.e., to still it by turning its blades into the air stream. With the engine dead, the prop was windmilling loosely...
...judges are not monks or scientists, but participants in the living stream of our national life, steering the law between the dangers of rigidity on the one hand and of formlessness on the other. Our system faces no theoretical dilemma but a single continuous problem: how to apply to ever-changing conditions the never-changing principles of freedom...
...income from investments of more than $50,000 a year; his wife's is even higher. A stranger to all sports, he superintends a four-man gardening crew at his Bedfordshire estate, grows flowers in the courtyard of his Belgravia house. Colonials of all creeds, colors and classes stream in to the Lennox-Boyds' frequent house parties...
...positive reactions to petty Soviet moves, but the Secretary of State has responded to smallness with smallness--his retaliatory closing of 27 percent of U.S. territory to Russian nationals is typical. The President has called for deeds and not words, but the Secretary of State has given forth a stream of words--from "massive retaliation" to "agonizing reappraisal" to "liberation of the satellites" to "the Portuguese province of Goa" to "the brink of war"--which have done far more to frighten our allies and our potential allies than to scare the Soviet Union. The President has asked for close consultation...
...varsity grabbed a lead of about two seats early in the race, increased it to half a length with about a half mile to go, and won going away. A stiff tail wind pushed the two crews up the stream...