Word: stream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...transactions in recent months have been made by French Canadians. Fearful of the economic chaos that could result from the possible secession of Quebec from the Canadian Confederation, some 10,000 Canadians (Anglos as well as French) have settled in southern Florida. The Miami area has also attracted a stream of Jamaicans who find life under Prime Minister Michael Manley's "democratic socialism" increasingly oppressive...
...wheeler that he sailed up to Stanley Falls. Heart of Darkness conveys the dwarfing effect that the 1,000-mile journey must have had on the 32-year-old Conrad: "Trees, trees, millions of trees, massive, immense, running up high; and at their foot, hugging the bank against the stream, crept the little begrimed steamboat, like a sluggish beetle crawling on the floor of a lofty portico...
...banners that said THANKS FOR REVENUE SHARING, NIXON IS THE ONE, and NOW MORE THAN EVER. After a night in the motel, Nixon rode to the dedication, where he sat drenched in sweat in a non-air-conditioned auditorium packed with 4,500 people in 95° heat. A stream of east Kentucky dignitaries took their bows. Then Nixon, who looked wilted and dazed in those ceremonies, rallied for a 40-minute speech notable for its force and its predictability (the U.S. needs a strong military and intelligence capability, a strong economy, the will to fight "against aggressors...
...Yugoslavia and Poland, they were supposed to fly to Vienna, but their plane was grounded by fog. So Miller herded them aboard a bus for a 14-hour trip through Czechoslovakia. The roads were rough and visibility near zero, but Miller, sitting beside the driver, issued a steady stream of instructions about how to steer through tight turns. Periodically, he had the bus stopped so that he could loosen up with calisthenics, and everybody else could get over the shakes...
...they create with the long, scarlet strands of silk. Nine women glide serenely across the stage, costumed to represent lotus flowers, hoops just above their ankles, hiding their feet and representing the pads of the flowers. Magically, they create a lovely imitation of flowers floating in a gently flowing stream...