Word: stream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Colorado is a life-giving stream for much of the arid U.S. Southwest and for Mexico's Mexicali Valley. Under a 1944 treaty, the U.S. promised to share the river for irrigation. Mexico built a dam one mile below the border, spider-webbed the once desolate Mexicali Valley with irrigation canals. Then in 1961, under the Wellton-Mohawk reclamation project in Arizona's Yuma Desert, U.S. cotton growers began draining salty irrigation water from their soil-and flushed the residue back into the river, whose salt content rose from a tolerable 800 parts...
...still the most widely read strip.* Little Orphan Annie veered from the family pattern since she lacked parents. But Daddy Warbucks, a billionaire arms manufacturer, has more than made up for their absence. With his help, ageless Annie has plowed under no end of evildoers while issuing a steady stream of far-right propaganda attacking everything from the New Deal to modern psychiatry...
...Hung Up." As night fell, a steady stream of cars were moving along Route 80, carrying demonstrators from Montgomery back to Selma. One of the volunteer drivers was red-haired Viola Gregg Liuzzo, 39, twice-divorced, wife of a Detroit Teamster union official, the mother of five children, aged six to 18, one a 17-year-old married daughter living in Georgia. She was occasionally involved in protest activities, once kept two of her sons out of school more than a month to dramatize her objection to a state law permitting students to drop out of school at 16, which...
When Ranger was 1,300 miles from the moon, other orders climbed the radio beam from California and told the spacecraft to turn on its six TV cameras. Without further fuss the incredible moon photos began to come down in a steady stream. In 1.3 seconds they made the long journey from the moon to J.P.L.'s control station in the Mojave Desert. They jumped by microwave to Pasadena, appeared in crisp detail on fine-grained, 1,152-line picture tubes and were transformed into the standard 500-line pictures of U.S. commercial television. Never had so many people...
...appeared on stage, I saw a fellow of fairly small frame, strikingly handsome, with dark brown eyes, a winning smile and shining white teeth. But the moment he started to sing, I was hardly conscious of anything else except The Voice. From that modest physique issued a radiant stream of ravishing beauty and expressivity, which, when the occasion demanded, expanded to so enormous a size as to seem almost a physiological impossibility...