For the American pilot high above, hunting for Vietnam War enemies, the little span over a sluggish stream presented a target, and the bombs fell, ripping their refuge with searing shrapnel.
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Most species are lowland, sluggish stream-and lake-dwellers usually found associated with submerged wood; however, many species may be found among rocks in piedmont to mountain streams with moderate to swift flow.
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The general aspect of the district was that of a flat even country, dotted with clusters of bamboo and arecanut palms, and intersected by a network of dark-coloured and sluggish streams.
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Run-off from the pond, including one " sluggish stream " which traveled part of the route of the future Canal Street, fed nearby swamps and marshes which prevented the city from continuing its northward growth.
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Listed as " Sneillewelle " in around 1050, and " Snelleuuelle " in the Domesday Book of 1086, the village's name means " spring or stream infested with snails " or perhaps " sluggish stream ".
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Its entry in " Oregon Geographic Names " says, " It is a sluggish stream, and it is no surprise that the pioneers named it as they did . " The name appeared in print as early as 1857.
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The bus that went to the island crossed the Jordan, a sluggish stream in summer, then chugged through landscape resembling trampled spongecake, littered with the remnants of a world that died in the 1948 war : the disused power station, once the pride of the Middle East; a railroad station built by the Turks, its tracks long ago uprooted.
