Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flames spurted from the smoke, swept the superstructure. White steam billowed up within the pall as hoses played on the fire. Beneath the smoke, passengers crowded the windward decks. There was no shouting, no panic, even when they heard an officer call out an order to flood the magazine...
...After every action, as ships steam toward their base, they are boarded at sea by Serfor men. Swinging aboard like advance agents of ship chandlers, they find out what is needed, are ready to service the ship the minute she anchors or docks...
...expanding for three billion years, will continue to expand for at least 9,997 billion more. By then it should be completely relaxed, the stars will all have the same velocity, and will begin to slip away from the galaxy like molecules of water evaporating from a puff of steam. At this point Astrophysicist Chandrasekhar's imagination, like that of most scientists, also relaxes...
...heaviest hitting games of the summer softball schedule, a third-place Eliot team steam-rollered Adams, 17-3, sending the Gold-Coasters into a deadlock for the cellar. Also in yesterday's softball wars, the league-leading Lowell Bellboys slipped a notch nearer second-place Dunster when Winthrop trounced them...
...more steam behind its junk-your-jalopy campaign, in New York and New Jersey asked auto dealers and junkmen to turn in at least 420,000 old autos by year's end (normal: less than 100,000). Since each jalopy yields 1,500 lb. of steel scrap, 30 lb. of lead, 25 lb. of copper and 22 lb. of zinc, the junk-auto scheme could mean a fat addition to U.S. metal supplies...