Word: streamingly
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...going to get out first." Cars lurched out of town, decked with clothing, rifles, bicycles and skis; the girls from the cribs on Main Street hustled out, carrying their treasured negligees. The wind shifted, driving evacuees onto alternate highways, only to shift capriciously again, pushing the traffic stream back into other roads...
Physicist Edward Teller traversed the north side of Oregon's Mount Hood with his son Paul, 16, and daughter Susan Wendi, 13. Darkness trapped them near a swollen stream, and the "Father of the H-Bomb" thought the water looked too heavy to be forded at night. When rescuers reached them in the cold predawn, Teller assured them: "We were not lost. We simply got a late start." Said one rescuer ambiguously: "Dr. Teller had a good case of the shakes...
...reach quite young what many people consider the dream life of America: success by my own efforts, a stream of dollars to spend, a penthouse in New York, forays to Hollywood, the companionship of pretty women, all before I was 24 ... There I was in the realms of gold . . . But even as I lived this conventional smart existence of inner show business, and dreamed the conventional dreams, it all seemed thin...
...mildewed Roman Catholic church across the street. For French-trained General Amkha, who still holds the rank of captain in the French army, it was a nightmare war. What news of the front he could get came from runners, a handful of Red prisoners and an endless stream of refugees :women with babies, men burdened with mattresses and sewing machines, a ten-year-old boy toting a submachine gun that his father, an ex-home guard, had told him to return to the government. To reach the area of a reported fight only 20 miles away in the jungle took...
...middle of flaming Arnhem in St. Elizabeth's Hospital, its walls hung with red crosses of torn sheets and red flannel bandages. As the battle raged through the streets outside, Paul's team performed 80 major surgical operations. The wounded came in a never-ending stream to tell in that flat soldier's monotone of the losing fight and lost friends. "Pretty nasty down at the bridge. The panzers got there earlier than we reckoned." "Frank, that's my mate, copped it. In the face-half of it blown right out." The British held the hospital...