Word: stream
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...automatic MP5 with a silencer. The gun, preferred by both the CIA and Secret Service, has very little kick and can shoot in one, three and automatic shot bursts. Minutes later, I was rattling off bursts of metal with occasional pinpoint accuracy and ended my day by sending a stream of bullets through my target...
...fixed in our system. Environmentalists sometimes complain that the memory of this attachment is buried too deep, though it continually surfaces, not only in names of places but also in turns of language that have no meaning in modern experience but are kept alive, nonetheless, like verbal souvenirs--horsepower, stream of consciousness, it's a jungle out there. One cannot think of a single composer, painter or writer who has not tracked at least one major inspiration to a bird, a tree, a rose. People automatically lose themselves in wordless reverence at the sight of a curlew or a silver...
From California to Maine, dam removal has begun. When four small diversion dams were taken off a Sierra Nevada stream called Butte Creek, record numbers of spring-run Chinook salmon--listed by the U.S. as a threatened species--rushed past their ruins to spawn. If the spring-run Chinook ends up on the more serious endangered-species list, that will trigger more restrictions on diversions from its spawning rivers. So helping the spring-run by getting rid of a few dams could be worth billions to California's economy, which is hopelessly dependent on the manipulation of water...
Through the intimate bond between parent and offspring flows the continuity of life itself. That our human trash stream crosses even this sacred bond is evidence of a world wounded and out of round, its relationships disfigured. The albatross's message: consumer culture permeates every watery point on the compass. From sun-bleached coral reefs to icy polar waters, no place, no creature, remains apart...
...once went fly fishing up in the Aberdare Range of Kenya--trying to cast a delicate fly down quietly upon the surface of the stream while at the same time watching over my shoulder for the lions that liked to pick off little animals watering there. I didn't catch any fish. I didn't get eaten either...