Word: stream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unusual family to which both men belong is an American version of the Castle Irish, a hated nobility. To admirers, the Buckleys represent what is good in family life: unselfconscious affection, vitality, devotion to excellence, a felicitous mix of principle and hedonism. The ten Buckley children received a steady stream of good-humored, constructive memoranda from their frequently traveling father, William F. Buckley Sr. In one, occasioned by their overuse of the many family cars, he suggested "a course of therapy designed to prevent atrophy of the leg muscles, if only for aesthetic reasons...
...Islands in the Stream, Hemingway...
...Islands in the Stream, Hemingway...
...Islands in the Stream, Hemingway
...homing ability of some migrating animals is uncanny. A bat living in Arizona's Colossal Cave was removed 28 miles and freed; it found its way home in less than four hours. A coho salmon raised in a California hatchery was shifted to a different stream when it was a year old. At spawning time the next year, the fish appeared back in its old tank. From the sea, it had found and ascended its home stream, crossed under U.S. Highway 101 by culvert, swum through a storm sewer and up to a flume, finally wriggled through a right...