Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There was no moon. Not even a cigaret glowed and silence spread over our ship. Below decks a few played apathetically at cards, and at the end a big major, his glasses clouded with steam and his inflated face slick with sweat, owed $8 to a sharp-eyed little captain. He asked: 'Do you want it now, or will you take it off the corpse?' One by one the men drifted off to the narrow, airless bunks assigned them. The wardroom was empty...
...having missed a copy of TIME since 1929 and hoping not to as long as it or I exist, I am taking this first time to write you a letter and let off a little personal steam about all the noise being made . . . regarding the production decline and manpower shortage...
...there we were looking at one of the most fearsome sights in the world. Clouds of steam obstructed our view, but now and then they thinned out to show us the red, seething mass of lava whose fierce heat came at us in gusts. The steepness of the sides, yellowed with sulfur, surprised me. They sheered off below us like a cliff. And every 30 seconds came that roar and explosion as the angry mass shot its lava into...
Pacific Ways. Many units of the British Fleet, once desperately occupied in the Mediterranean, could now steam east to the Pacific front. British warships manned by veteran crews could be thrown against the Jap supply lines. To protect those lines the Jap fleet was already spread too thin...
...aviation's wartime boom has brought an alarming growth of reckless flying-some of it by pilots too young to know better, some by veterans too skilled to give a damn. So long as a flyer lets off steam somewhere by himself, with plenty of room, the possible results are of primary interest only to his commander, the crash-wagon crew and the next...