Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columnists. "Hedda Hopper I like. She's a gallant, crazy old gal with lots of steam. But Louella Parsons I don't like. Louella used to be a reporter with me in Chicago; she was one of the worst reporters the town ever knew . . . She's positively one of the most sad things in Hollywood. She makes it seem like a town full of boss lovers-which it is. She bows when the boss is not there, just his shadow...
First of Everything. Across the U.S. there are scores or hundreds of men (and a few women) who "by reason of strength" have passed the fourscore mark under full productive steam, but their formulas for useful longevity differ widely in many cases from Stagg's. They are alike in that they have lived through the dizziest technological changes in man's history, and most have taken these developments in stride. To a child born 80 years ago, the transcontinental railroad, only nine years old, was a new thing. Electric power did not become publicly available until...
Brobdingnagian Cartridge. Conceived in 1955 as a backstop to the Atlas ICBM, which is a surface or "soft-base" missile, the Titan program began with a one-year handicap, has since lost ground as the lion's share of money, engineers and steam poured into Atlas. But Titan shows signs of becoming a system with superior potential range, invincibility and kill...
Then some of the passel of pacifists, neutralists and fellow travelers wanted to denounce U.S. bases in Britain and scuttle NATO. Gaitskell, a middle-of-the-road friend of NATO and the U.S., took the steam out of their drive by moving an "emergency resolution" vowing not to support any war for Quemoy and pledging "no obsequious silence" before U.S. policy if Labor rules...
...Because of the large quantity of eggs, they had to be cooked by steam. Steam in the morning varies; consequently, so do the eggs...