Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crippled for fighting by the drinking of Saturday. In fact, the Saturday night before the attack, we, aviators, also expected through the Honolulu radio that there would be very much drinking among American seamen and soldiers. It might be payday and the drink-shops would be running full steam. We heard jazz from the Honolulu radio through the night. We smiled because we knew very well for the result . . . There would be oversleeping and unpreparedness...
...Hand Mulloy also had foot faults called against him, but instead of fuming, he flared, "Dammit, I didn't."* Having blown off steam, Mulloy went on to blast a demoralized Savitt off the court in the final...
...radio networks and festival devotees. They cleaned up the Festspielhaus, hired musicians, replaced costumes and sets destroyed by playfully masquerading American G.I.s quartered in the building at the end of the war. The Wagners also designed some imaginative props. Example: Fafner, the dragon in Siegfried, is a 30-foot, steam-snorting monster with bloody ten-foot jaws, and teeth a foot long. Mused Wolfgang: "Grandfather, in the sky, probably would not like what we are doing. But on second thought, he was such a revolutionary himself, he would probably go along...
...Colorado's deep-slashed Las Animas River canyon two ancient locomotives were fired up until the safety valves were blowing under a full head of steam. Five cars were hooked on to one engine, two on to the other; in addition, the locomotives carried 300 sticks of dynamite garnished with 30 Ibs. of black powder. Portentously, [rom about a fifth of a mile apart, the panting engines began to roll slowly toward each other on the same narrow-gauge track. The engineers in the cabs pushed the throttles open, then jumped clear as the trains picked up speed...
...caught up with the other fellow so fast that by 1928 he was boss of drilling at Texas Gulf's old Texas fields, later managed production of the vast new Boling Dome deposit on the Gulf Coast. In 1931, he invented the sulphur trap to separate air and steam from sulphur at the well head, thus eliminating the corrosive elements and enabling sulphur to be piped directly to plants for processing. Three years ago, Nelson worked out a deal with Pure Oil Co. to produce sulphur from sour gas in Wyoming, the largest such plant in the world. With...