Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time during the night was either team moving at full speed. The first five minutes of play were conducted at a near-walk despite the scoring. When BC managed to generate some steam, it left the varsity well in arrears...
After Allen went off to war in 1942, some of the steam went out of the Merry-Go-Round, but it never broke down. Pearson got many a beat like the General George Patton* slapping story merely by printing what other newsmen knew, but had kept to themselves from feelings of patriotism or a foggy sense of newspaper ethics. He also made many a wild forecast -among them, that Marshal Tito would be assassinated in 1947 and, along with almost every pundit, that Truman would be beaten in 1948. He has not yet lived down his 1946 "disclosure" that...
...second half, Navy's 200-lb. Fullback Bill Hawkins, who had been in drydock with an infection and a damaged shoulder, really got up steam. Seaworthy once more, he played almost the full 60 minutes, backing up Navy's line, blocking ferociously, plunging through the enemy line on offense. It was all Bill Hawkins as Navy drove down the field in the closing minutes for the tying touchdown. Final score: Navy 21, Army 21. It was easily the upset of the year...
...excellent list of the places in which Bradley's Geiger counters burst into song. The average Navyman, who thought that the bomb was expected to pulverize its targets, was at first elated by the relatively undamaged condition of many of the ships (some of them could get up steam and float properly). There was less to be elated about three weeks later after Test Baker (the underwater explosion). To old salts, the spectacle of the Radiological Monitors, "decked out in galoshes, gloves, coveralls, and mask . . . creeping along the passages . . . waving a magic black box," was unnautical and absurd. When...
...little extras which spell the difference between good and poor meals. Dishes which have been salted with a shaker always seem tastier than ones in which a pre-determined amount has been dumped and stirred around with an car. Lugging vats of meat and vegetables through stifling steam tunnels to House Dining Halls necessarily renders most food tasteless...