Word: streaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago French Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, reported to be suffering from a stroke, was flown to Russia on a stretcher. Since then, a stream of visiting French Communist functionaries have reported Thorez in good health. In the 1951 general election he was returned to the National Assembly in absentia. Last September, acting Communist Boss Jacques Duclos announced that Thorez "is preparing to return to France to retake his place at our head...
...expand his hobby. He phoned the Lincoln and St. James High Schools and made them a standing offer. Each year, he said, he would send off four or five of their students, no matter what their race or religion or where they wanted to go. Soon a steady stream of youngsters was filing through his office-the sons & daughters of elevator operators, mechanics, and factory hands...
...reported the bribe offer to Maryland Coach Jim Tatum. "Why didn't you kill the guy?" Tatum growled at Quarterback Scarbath. Then Tatum called the cops. Against L.S.U., the fired-up trio and their teammates ran up a 34-0 score before Tatum relaxed and sent in a stream of substitutes. Final score, well above the gamblers' spread...
...little band plays in quiet tones. Picking out a popular tune like All the Things You Are, Pianist Brubeck and Saxophonist Paul Desmond toss the theme back & forth for a while. Then, before long, the tune disappears and in its place, stream-of-consciousness style, come whimsical variations hinting at everything from Stravinsky to Gershwin to Bach. When he comes to his solo part, Brubeck picks a random theme and toys with it, reflectively trying it first on the white keys, then on the black, allowing traces of Mozart or John Philip Sousa to creep in. Then his eyes close...
...lifelike bulldog which shakes its head, opens its mouth and growls at the tug of a leash ($16.95). Ohio's Doepke Manufacturers has a 19-in. fire engine made to scale from the famed La-France, with an extendible ladder and a hose that shoots a 20-ft. stream of water ($15.95). But the ultimate in realism was achieved by Chicago's Marlin Electric Co. It has a 4-lb., battery-powered toy lie detector, about the size of a small table radio...