Word: stream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silver Stream...
...folks who live in Union Grove, N.C.- that's between Harmony Love Valley, not far from the Brushy Mountains - believe in being right nice to outsiders. So, when thousands of visitors stream into town on Easter weekend for the annual Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, the residents go all out to accommodate them. Farmer Herman Speece lets herds of autos crowd the cows off his pasture. The boys at the firehouse move the truck out so that people who find it too cold in their cars or tents can spend the night on the firehouse floor. The ladies...
...stripped-down flat, a cell of Maoist incendiaries gather to plan the decline and fall of practically everybody. The short-wave radio blares a ceaseless stream of news from Radio Peking; quotes from the Chairman are read with the stentorian zeal of the newly converted; lectures propound dialectical doublethink ("A revolutionary party carries out a policy whenever it takes an action. If it's not a correct policy, it's a wrong...
...possibility that the Communist forces were so shattered by their recent losses that they could not fight at all. Instead, there was every indication that the Communists were simply hiding out while they got resupplied for fresh offensives. Down the Ho Chi Minh Trail poured a steady stream of North Vietnamese trucks, headlights brazenly ablaze in the night. The infiltration of men from the North is running far above the usual estimates of 6,000 to 6,500 a month-perhaps as much as twice that number. From February to mid-April, U.S. intelligence believes some 44,000 fresh soldiers...
...never let the battle-field slip away under his feet. In 1938, when he became executive editor of the Constitution, the Atlanta chapter of the KKK staged a protest parade around the Constitution building, denouncing him. Since then, particularly in times of racial tension, he has received a steady stream of obscene phone calls and occasional loads of garbage dumped on his front lawn...