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Word: streaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found that the Reds had pulled back, taking their wounded with them. Four times through the heat of the day the cursing, green-clad Legionnaires, red with sweat and black with paddy mud, made their attacks. Each time the Reds withdrew. To the south, French soldiers crossed neck-deep streams under sniper fire. They put their dead and wounded in a dugout canoe and went forward. From the river, Ensign Lecorche led his LCMs and LCVPs cautiously into the jungle by way of a narrow stream. A sniper's bullet hit Lecorche's second in command, and when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF INDO-CHINA: Amphibians of the Cis Bassac | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...divisions into federal service (though the Army might call a few "comparatively small-sized units"); the Army already has or soon will have its 24-division base. The real need was for new recruits to flesh them out and, after two years in the service, to provide a steady stream of fresh young veterans for the National Guard and Organized Reserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Through the Loophole | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...style apartment houses and the frescoed mansions of wealthy traders looked down on the colony's business section. Hong Kong's polyglot population-Chinese, Britons, Americans, Eurasians and White Russians-swirled along the narrow, arcaded sidewalks, pausing at the intersections to thread their way through a steady stream of Citroëns and Chevrolets, Buicks and Bentleys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG: Keep Right On Sitting | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

Equipped to carry a five-ton load through a 7-ft.-deep stream, the Eager Beaver does even better. In a grueling Army test, with the driver wearing a portable lung, it went to a depth of eleven feet, cruised without a sputter on the bottom of a clear stream with fish swimming around it (see picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Weapons | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

Drifting on a lazy stream of subconsciousness, some modern short-story writers seem to forget that they owe their reader-passengers a destination. Not so Scottish Neil (Behold Thy Daughter) Paterson, a canny navigator with some of Somerset Maugham's gift for piloting a narrative to home port. The China Run, eight stories long, boasts several twist-of-fate tales that are polished and sardonic enough to have been told by the Old Party himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Just Plain Stories | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

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