Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While they were gone, at exactly 10:14, the ancient steam engine began to huff & puff, and without a human soul aboard, the little train slowly pulled out of Palace Gates...
...refugees squatted in an area about 100 yards wide and half a mile long, waiting for a chance to clamber aboard freight trains. They strapped themselves to the sides of flatcars, clung to perilous footholds by slender strands of rope. On one engine, a woman wedged herself atop a steam valve to keep warm, not realizing that when the train started moving she would inevitably freeze and topple...
...Worked full steam ahead on a bill setting up a $3.1 billion program for civilian defense...
...diplomatic smoke and steam, there was no real doubt in Ottawa or elsewhere that Canada stood squarely with the U.S. if total war proved to be the fateful outcome. Almost as a token of this, when the U.S. ordered an embargo on trade with Communist China last week, the Dominion immediately followed suit...
...last year's solid successes in the know-thyself field, The Mature Mind, picked up steam in 1950 and remained a bestseller all year. It gave way, finally, to Dianetics, a gelatinous porridge of poor man's psychoanalysis which was originally dished out, appropriately enough, in Astounding Science Fiction. Equally astounding, and to many critics equally fictitious, was Immanuel Velikovsky's pseudo-scientific Worlds in Collision, an explanation of mythological and Old Testament miracles that turned academic scientists from coast to coast purple with wrath. It made bestseller lists along with Gayelord Hauser's irresistible promise...