Word: streamingly
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...swiftly it rushed towards the royal stream, that naught held it back...
...knew the sudden fury of the Arno and its tributaries. So did later Florentines who saw their city flooded in 1333, 1577, 1666 and 1844. Last week the 450,000 citizens of the capital of Renaissance art once again watched in silent disbelief as the floodwaters of the "royal stream" receded. This time, the raging tide had swept down from the mountainous north in a wide arc through Florence. The waters killed at least 100 persons, dealt a severe blow to the economy of one-third of Italy, and ruined countless millions of dollars' worth of Florentine masterpieces...
...stimulus to the cause of world peace." United Nations Secretary General U Thant did not quite agree: "Any atomic explosion anywhere is to be regretted." Japan lodged its "deep regrets and strongest protests" over the test, which it described as another example of China's "rowing against the stream of the world." Perhaps in tacit agreement, Communist newspapers in Warsaw and Paris downplayed the news as much as possible, but Paris' independent Le Figaro pronounced China "in the fullest sense of the word a nuclear power...
...drive the four miles from Manhattan's Battery Park to Times Square: three weeks. Weeks? Today, some people can make it in nearly three hours. But there is nothing intrinsically unbelievable about the figure. Traffic at midday in mid-Manhattan makes slow molasses seem like a moun tain-stream cascade, and the 11½ m.p.h. that horse-drawn carriages could do in 1907 seem like a race at Aqueduct. Slowly but inexorably, the cherished mobility of Americans is being eroded by a growing number of strains on U.S. transportation...
...were returning to the known part of the cave at the end of the day, we saw the lights of another party just outside. Going back to the new passage would have made too much noise. Instead we doused our lamps and for forty minutes crouched in a stream in the dark, until the party had moved farther...