Word: streaming
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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
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...