Word: stream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long time, trying to reconcile my life and thoughts with the lives these people are leading. A newspaper article, glued in the scrap book, called them "modern-day pioneers" --a condescending label that nonetheless contains an element of truth. When I left the house, I crossed the stream, walking over to the barn in search of a cousin. There I met Bessie, who kindly permited me, an awkward novice, to milk her. After the ceremony was over, I washed up in the fresh stream water heated on the stove, and drove into the town to meet Annie...
Lorraine G. Wright Valley Stream...
...hook" in the sky. Since the early 1920s, when mail pilots held up a wet finger to see which way the wind was blowing, U.S. aviation has been trying with increasing success to spot weather hazards and route pilots around them. Today's commercial airlines get a steady stream of up-to-the-minute weather reports, including data gleaned by satellites that scan the earth. Indeed, the combination of advanced meteorological techniques and the toughness of the modern jet airliner has largely eliminated the danger that planes will be caught in the kind of massive storms that have been...
...Southern California, while Buffett's music is countrified Caribbean. He lives aboard a 33-ft. ketch called Euphoria, and island-hops through the Antilles. His music, like his lifestyle, is a gentle blend of folksy Southern rock and infatuation with the Caribbean. Buffett writes, often puckishly, of Gulf Stream idyls, Latin crimes of passion, and tequila-filled days. His themes, presented in simple rhythms and sung in an engaging baritone, have the languorous appeal of a fishnet hammock. As he sings in Wastin' Away Again in Margaritaville...
That bass-filled lake, separated by marshy, stream-laced, uninhabited and largely trackless terrain from Sanford, Fla., could not be reached by any land vehicle. The 25-mile trip was made by the chopper in 15 minutes. After landing at lakeside, we unloaded three inflatable rafts from the back of the H-H, pulled out the rods and bait, drew down a screened canopy to make an outside lounge, and were paddling on the lake within 30 minutes...