Word: stream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week Ike left Denver for some fly-fishing in the north branch of the South Platte river near Pine, Colo. As he fished, 50 men, women and children gathered on a highway near the stream to watch him. The onlookers offered advice and encouragement, and Ike goodnaturedly bantered with them. On his first strike he lost both fish and fly. When the President brought a trout to net, an onlooker called: "Yeah, Ike." The stream, specially stocked with 500 Ibs. of trout by Ike's host, Bal Swan, provided fast action for the rest of the day. White House...
...Movements may be as formless as a shifting fog, as destructive as a stream of lava, as senseless as a panic-stricken mob, as regimented to evil ends as Naziism, as suicidal as the movements of the Gadarene swine. The ecumenical movement is a movement of free men all in one direction. It is a movement of churches toward their own center, a concentration of Christendom on Christ. Because we see through a glass darkly, because we get in each other's way a good deal, because we are sinners and because we are involved in the world...
...month's end, McKay will return to his place in the Cabinet (which he admires), to the enormous Ickes office (which he dislikes) and to his problems: reclamation and recreation, field and stream, parks and power-above all, power. He has no ambition beyond making a success of the Eisenhower program and of his job. "I've got a house in Salem and a lot in the cemetery, so I'll be coming home some day," he assures his friends...
...philosophy, Miss Trask keeps her classroom humming with activity. Most mornings begin with a "report period" in which her pupils exchange ideas or tell each other stories. After that, the class's regular work-social studies, science, reading, arithmetic-flows along with something of the ease of a stream of consciousness. Through spontaneous "poems," pupils begin to learn the power of words; through reading and trips around the community, they combine past and present history; and through a bewildering array of projects (e.g., wiring the classroom bell, building a weather station), they pick up the essentials of science-while...
Then starts the merriest operation in the offshore oil business. An engineer, sitting at a control cabinet with little handles on it, opens valves releasing streams of compressed air. One stream runs through tubing to each of the caissons and inflates a heavy-walled rubber "inner tube," locking the caisson tightly to a steel ring. Then other inner tubes inflate, expand, and drive the caisson into the mud. Eventually the caissons reach firm footing deep in the mud. Then, inch by inch, the barge climbs up its own caissons like a boy shinning up a tree...