Word: stream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alley, the Rio Grande is a sparkling, star-filled stream that incites cowboys and senoritas to romance. Normally, the river is a chocolate-colored ditch, treacherous with potholes where many an unwary wetback has drowned. It swirls between banks of cactus and mesquite down 1,800 miles of rich, irrigated farmland to the Gulf of Mexico. Last week most of the lower Rio Grande, from Laredo (pop. 51,910) to its mouth at the southernmost tip of Texas, was a dry arroyo; at Laredo, the river ran dry for the first time since the International Water Commission began keeping records...
...camp and made their way through the "human danger zone" (natives and British search parties) toward the base of the mountain. Loaded down with heavy rucksacks, unarmed except for crude ice axes, without a map, they then invaded the "animal danger zone" (lions, leopards) and began to follow a stream which they hoped had its source high on Mount Kenya...
...Curious Tolerance." Britain between the wars was a bad climate for a poet like Noyes. Increasingly hailed by the older generation, he was an archenemy of the younger. In Noyes's eyes, for example the so-called "stream of subconscious ideas meant only "the entire contents of the garbage can and the sewer." He prided himself that his objections to James Joyce's Ulysses ("filth") prevented its being praised on the BBC, and he ordered Novelist Hugh Walpole out of his house for recommending it to one of Noyes's daughters. To a more modern generation...
...Churchill doublecrosses us, let Russia have the British Isles. Then we can justifiably atom-bomb the Gulf of Mexico until the Gulf Stream flows into Canadian waters, and England will be frozen stiff next winter...
...Mississippi was in a hurry, and he strode along the path by the levee paying no attention to the hazards. He brushed against a shower-soaked crepe myrtle, and, in an instant, his trig new Public Health Service uniform was drenched. Barely pausing, Dr. Frederick Andrew Johansen loosed a stream of expletives that he had learned as a boy among the mule skinners in Missouri. A couple of patients told the others what they had heard. From that first moment, the patients concluded that Dr. Johansen ("Dr. Jo") was as human as they come...