Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Snapped Like a Whip. The Broker hit the spur at 5:43. The first cars lurched wildly. Just past the trestle, the steam locomotive toppled over on its side. There was a thunderous crash. One after another, the cars smashed ahead, tumbled down the embankment in a tangle of steel, slicing glass and mud-hurling bodies from their sides like maggots...
Said a passenger afterwards: "It felt like a whip being snapped. Newspapers started flying all over the car. The next thing I remember, the car was over on its side. I saw bodies stuffed into the baggage racks." A great cloud of hissing steam, smoke, dust and soot smothered the wreckage. Inside, men and women screamed and struggled. "They were like a bunch of wild animals trying to get out of turned-over cages, clawing and punching each other to get clear," said one of the survivors shakily...
...Dorchester went down 25 minutes later in a rumble of steam; some 600 men were lost, but the heroic chaplains had helped save over 200. The last anyone saw of them, they were standing on the slanting deck, their arms linked, in prayer...
...through the clouds of volcanic ash to an airstrip near Lamington last week reported at least 50 square miles of formerly jungle-clad hills now a grey-brown desert of pumice dust caking into stone. Said one rescuer: "It was like being on another planet...The haze of steam and smoke issuing from Lamington made the whole thing a nightmare." Said Australian Government Official Claude Champion: "Native bodies were everywhere. Dead natives were hanging in the stripped branches of every tree, and many were caught in the forks of the trees. Apparently they died there after they had climbed...
...first woman President of the United States. To President Altbee fell the painful duty of informing her all-female cabinet that the country was about to be attacked by a Russian fleet manned entirely by women. "Our Navy," said Mrs. Weller, the Secretary of the Interior, "will have to steam out immediately and destroy them!" "Who'll steam it?" groaned Mrs. Dwight, the Secretary of Agriculture...