Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...middleweight and light-heavyweight classes, had only recently given up his light-heavy title to take a jab at Joe Louis' diadem. The wise money said The Kid should have waited another year. He was fast and smart but he was 25 Ib. lighter than Louis, had no steam behind his punches...
...ever-growing curse of the congested business streets of most big cities is their lack of coordination. Manhattan's Sixth Avenue has been one of the world's most turbulent and cross-purposed examples. Its elevated railway, originally constructed for steam trains, clattered relentlessly over a darkened street where tramcars, busses, taxis and trucks cacophonously disputed passage. Beneath its vibrating steel structure, messenger boys of the world's biggest clothing center further clotted the traffic by trundling loads of furs, hats and dresses in pushcarts. Sixth Avenue bristled with slums that had once been factories, factories that...
Farther on, the rice was shifted to a small chugging steam launch. Skillfully hidden in crevasses along the last stretches of these gorges were machine-gun nests; the valleys leading back from the river were tangled with barbed wire. On strategic crests stood concrete pillboxes; here & there were emplacements ready for artillery. But there was no artillery...
Fact No. 1. The main fact was simple enough. Rudolf Hess, only two places removed from the leadership of Germany, had quit Germany under his own steam and gone to the enemy country, where he was imprisoned. In all the howling vortex of dope-stories, nut-stories, crackpot theorizing, official and amateur speculation that the Hess flight evoked, only the New York World-Telegram affected to doubt Fact No. 1. The Telegram hired a series of detective storytellers to mastermind the Hess Case. One, Lee Wright of Publishers Simon & Schuster, opined that Hess wasn't Hess...
...week's end, as a report came that 27 U.S. merchant ships would steam to the Red Sea with supplies for the British troops in Africa and the Near East, Senate noninterventionists loaded their blunderbusses. They hoped to wing the ship bill when it reached the Senate floor and tie an anti-convoy amendment to its tail. But Administration forces were certain they had the votes to carry the measure through as the President had ordered...