Word: stream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walk on the steep slopes of the Monchsberg overlooking Salzburg, an overconfident Airedale named Gigo tried to drink from a swift-flowing stream that powers Salzburg's hydroelectric system and was swept into an underground aqueduct. He finally made it to a ledge 165 yards inside the aqueduct. After firemen, swimmers and divers battled currents for four days in a vain effort to reach the yelping dog, the city fathers shut off the water flow, and while 26 factories ground to an hour's halt for lack of power and hundreds of workers stood idle, a lone fireman...
...worst dreams we did not suspect that Israel-in the 20th year since the start of Hitler's slaughter of the Jewish people-would send a stream of weapons to rearm the German army," cried a Tel Aviv newspaper. Israel had contracted to sell 250,000 anti-tank grenade launchers worth $3,300,000 to West Germany's Bundeswehr. Even coalition parties in the government demanded cancellation of the contract, and Premier David Ben-Gurion faced a no-confidence vote in parliament. Threatening to resign if he did not get his way, Ben-Gurion defended the deal...
Above its still mysterious floor, the ocean is not homogeneous but is a vast, intricate structure of separate and distinct layers, each with its own character and individuality. In some places the layers curl up and mix; in other places they do not. Through the layers mighty rivers stream on largely unknown courses, often flowing in opposite directions close to one another. Exploration of this huge anatomy is just beginning. Realizing ever more clearly that most weather originates over the oceans, meteorologists are studying its mighty motions as the key to the world's climate. A change...
...ridj (a town in an area where the rebels are still active), the highway thunders with big trucks carrying pipeline equipment. A year ago, from Palestro onward-the rebel zone-the same road was almost deserted. The astonishing thing now is that mingling with the steady stream of trucks are families, both European and Moslem, in private cars, ignoring the charred remains of a car by the roadside and taking in stride the signs warning motorists not to stop and that the road is closed after 6:30 at night...
...passing through an engine, Douglas engineers found. Instead, a vortex like a small tornado forms below and just ahead of the engine's intake. If anything loose is within its reach, the vortex lifts it up like a house in a Kansas twister. Then the main air stream grabs it and hurls it into the engine...