Word: stream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drive to Ketchum that night. Fred sleeps in the back. It is a long, desert road. Cars are few and I trace their rear lights back to nothing in the sideview mirror, where they are but a pin-pricked rupture in the great sack of night, a bleeding stream of fleeting electricity. I push the van to 95 in the soundless onrush of blackness, while the flourescent stakes by the roadside teeter rearward and empty lights hang nowhere out in the desert, some mystery of some nuclear facility...
Their favorite villain, throughout, is Harvard University. "Harvard Mission Hill Enemy No.1," the community newspaper headlines read. They protest the constant stream of 30-day eviction notices; they claim Harvard has encouraged "premeditated blight" by buying homes where they intend to put the power plant, letting them run down, and then proceeding to ask for redevelopment power under the law. They see it as a struggle to survive...
What I really find difficult to believe, though is the assertion that this unending stream of Bicentennial brouhaha is really the voice of the people speaking. I mean, how many people have come up to you and told you how excited they were about the Bicentennial? There are probably a lot more people who are dreading the long haul until December 1976 than are looking forward to it. I, for one, have already developed a deep-seated antipathy towards the number 200 and I cringe when I encounter any word that begins with "bi". Even for those...
...followed a trail of strange footprints. Three small brown men, naked except for loin pouches made of leaves, were digging up a large root with a sharp stick. When they saw him, they fled like monkeys. Shouting reassurance, Dafal gave chase until the men stopped in a stream bed, trembling...
...River was a fine canoeing stream back in 1875, when the Potawatomi Indians headed down it in birch-barks. It still is, as 1,470 weekend paddlers found this month when they took part in the 15th Annual Mid-American Canoe Race. In bright aluminum and fiber-glass craft with names like Shark One and Titanic, the contestants braved a broad, meandering 22-mile stretch of the river in northern Illinois, suffering no injury worse than a cut leg and some overtaxed stomach muscles...