Word: streamingly
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Nimbly crossing a stream on a log worn smooth by countless bare feet, a mass of moving color in their freshly laundered sarongs, they gathered before the thatched home of the village lurah (leader) to hear an election official explain the proceedings. At least half of them were women, often with naked, suckling babies. "Vote freely," said the official. "Whoever buys or sells votes will be prosecuted ... Do you understand?" The crowd murmured...
...Citizens of London, wish us Godspeed." Within an hour, some 2,000,000 Britons had watched their first television commercial-a tube of Gibbs toothpaste sliding majestically down a mountain stream in a cake of ice while an announcer crooned, "It's cool, cool, cool." For years, the debate over permitting American-style commercial TV to invade the unsullied air waves of Britain has rent the nation with a fury unmatched since Burke demanded conciliation for the rebellious American colonists. But at the end of the new Independent Television Authority's first day of telecasting. Britain was still...
...twisting mountain roads to the fire area rumbled a stream of truck convoys with essential supplies: tools, pumps, stoves, snakebite kits, seeping bags of disposable paper, and hundreds of other items. One of Geil's supply men ordered 500 Ibs. of hamburger from a flabbergasted butcher in a nearby town ("take your time; take half an hour"). The men got food in their camps twice daily (at 4:30 a.m. and 8 p.m.), and box lunches on the fire line during the day. On the eighth day, with the fire almost under control, a wind sprang...
...Hurry. It is easy to read a plot into some of Nasser's recent moves. Cairo's Voice of the Arabs radio pours a stream of anti-French propaganda into Morocco, and Nasser gives warm asylum to old Riff Rebel Abd el Krim, a key North African troublemaker, as well as to Jerusalem's Jew-hating Mufti. In the Gaza strip he allows, if he does not approve, the arming and training of the Al Fedayeen commandos, teams of Palestine Arab refugees which periodically cross the border to raid Israel. At the Bandung Conference last April, where...
...driller that cuts the hardest metal-e.g., tungsten carbide-without touching it. Made by Cincinnati Milling Machine Co., the cutting edge is a stream of electrons a sort of manmade lightning. ¶A lathe with a mechanical brain, which computes the correct cutting speed for each job. Its makers, Monarch Machine Tool Co. of Sidney, Ohio, estimate that the brain alone can increase production 25% ¶A Cleveland Tapping Machine Co device that cuts threads on iron pipe fittings at the rate of 85 feet a minute, producing 1,480 fittings an hour, compared to the previous standard...