Word: streamingly
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Dunster also seems to provide adequate meals (which are made appetizing by the long walk which precedes them), but food in nothing but a joke in the other houses. The boys who run the grubwagons through the stream tunnels like Leverett best, though. It's at the end of a tremendous straight corridor which starts in the central kitchen under Kirkland. They say the best of them, if they take the first curve at a dead run, can coast all the way to Leverett. Of course the turnoffs at Lowell and Winthrop are festooned with multicolored blotches from power skids...
...Nasser's chief instrument of propaganda is the Voice of the Arabs. On four wave lengths, the Voice pours out a stream of stirring Arab songs, inflammatory news summaries and incendiary comment with the hypnotic insistence of a kind of political muezzin. It alleges "imperialist" plots, fictitious massacres, Zionist "conspiracies." It recommends riots in Jordan, rebellion in Morocco, revenge in Algeria. Blaring from loudspeakers in cafes and hovels throughout the Middle East, it is for a vast number of illiterate Arabs the only news they get. By relay stations up the Nile, it also aims at all Africa, beaming...
...series of articles syndicated by the North American Newspaper Alliance, the desert warrior concluded: "It was neither the King nor I who was at fault. King Hussein and I alike had been borne away willy-nilly on the tumultuous stream of human life...
Averting the Gaze. Under the reign of the present King's grandfather, King Abdullah, that stream had been kept under a measure of control. "I recollect so well one evening," Glubb recalls in an affectionate sidelight, "when King Abdullah was visited by a deputation of venerable-Moslem religious leaders and began to question them on religious subjects. 'Is it lawful to look at a pretty girl if you meet her on the street?' inquired His Majesty...
Color Shots. Novelist King, 33, who spent a winter on Corfu with the Somerset Maugham Award money received for his last novel, The Dividing Stream, has scraped the marrow of his Greek characters. He recognizes their fortitude under real pain, their histrionics over emotional trifles and their bristling pride. Above all, he captures their gift for draining each passing moment of life as if it were a glass of their own villainous retsina wine. Author King overexposes and underdevelops his hapless English hero, but his color shots of Corfu are snapped with the eye of a Matisse, and Patrick...