Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...propped up in a wheelchair with a brush strapped to his arthritic fingers. Last week Manhattan gallerygoers could see the result of those last pain-racked hours: healthy, big-hipped servant girls looking as flushed and happy as if they had just stepped out of a steam bath...
...transformed into a world government. If Russia stayed out, the other nations would go ahead with their organization anyhow. No one but a bemused dreamer expected Russia would stay in in good faith. Streit's seven democracies could simply make up their minds to federate, go full steam ahead and let Russia go whistle...
...pictures cannot be judged by any taste test; it is their emotional impact that matters. Ponderous and muddy though Koerner's art can be, it has all the weight and bite of a steam shovel. Where, when and how did he develop the steam...
Nova Scotia-born Joshua Slocum taught himself navigation, by hard work advanced himself to master of clipper ships. But at a time when "our proud fleet of clipper ships was an anachronism," Skipper Slocum doggedly refused to switch to steam. By the 1890s he was without a ship and facing forced retirement. He began to think of his old boyhood dream of sailing alone around the world...
...Both the British Laborites and Tories soft-pedaled the issue of government-owned industry. Nevertheless, in Britain, there was and still is a vague disappointment with the results of nationalization and it is highly probable that this was a hidden, but important, factor in Labor's loss of steam. ¶| Both parties promised to continue a state welfare program, which is undeniably popular with the mass of Britons. But the Labor Party is much more intimately identified with the welfare state than the Tories; the vote may indicate that large sections of the British public have begun to question...