Word: streaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bleak news of Franklin Roosevelt's death came from Warm Springs. For 40 years-years she could not have imagined as a bride-her life had been irrevocably part of theirs. She was a lonely widow. But the 40 years had pushed her far out into the rushing stream of events. Harry Truman asked her, as custodian of the Roosevelt name, to serve the U.S. in the United Nations...
When the boron had soaked through the woman's system, including the brain tumor that was killing her, the doctors placed her head near Brookhaven's high-flux pile. While the doctors watched from a platform, the pile operator threw the controls and a stream of neutrons from the pile shot through her skull, aimed at the tumor site. For 17 minutes the boron in the tumor was turned, atom by atom, into a source of instantaneous alpha radiation...
Sickness of mind and body may be predicted by microscopic traces of metals in the blood stream, according to Bert L. Vallee, research associate in Medicine...
...German theatre and an employment agency for destitute German-Americans, have several vigorous spats with her family, and plan a series of articles on hotel prostitution. There is just too much material; intead of building the impression of a continuing development of experience and understanding, it intrudes a confused stream of sights, sounds, smells, and feelings...
...other demand is that we accept the first-person narrative as being the heroine's actual stream of consciousness. Mr. Morton has a naturally florid style, and his exploitation of the descriptive powers of the English language leads him into a gaudiness of analogy and description which is especially ill-adapted to hectic first-person narration. ("It was a terrifying thing, a pale apple-green cloud, like a carbuncle in the anthracite...