Word: streaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drove jeeps along the sandy river flats to ferrying points on the Han River several miles upstream from the shattered bridge. There beetle-like rowboats jammed to the gunwales with refugees were plying back & forth across the broad, shallow stream...
...years an unvarying stream of 3,000,000 people passed annually by his cage. He was seldom sick, almost never troublesome. But early this month Keeper Robinson noted that Bushman seemed listless. One day, a fortnight ago, the big gorilla toppled over and lay sprawled and inert on the floor...
...looked up and saw a small hole in the dike through which a tiny stream was flowing. Any child in Holland will shudder at the thought of a leak in the dike! . . . That little hole, if the water were allowed to trickle through, would soon be a large one, and a terrible inundation would be the result. Quick as a flash he saw his duty . . . His chubby little finger was thrust in almost before he knew it. The flowing was stopped! "Ah!" he thought, with a chuckle of boyish delight, "the angry waters must stay back now! Haarlem shall...
...invasion troops on Dday. More than one old tournament hand had already come to grief along the tight, twisting fairways of the rugged Merion Golf Club course on the Main Line west of Philadelphia. A sample of the hazards ahead was the score-killing 11th hole, where a stream curls in front of the ice-slick green, curls back around the other side to swallow up any approach that overshoots the flag...
...stream of lava boiled through the fishing village of Pahoehoe to the sea cliff, dropped 100 ft., steaming and hissing into the water. At week's end the lava still flowed. It would probably be the biggest outpouring from, the world's biggest volcano in the past 70 years...