Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening the ship's band, as usual, played "Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!" First-class passengers invented a cocktail: "Reina on the Rocks." Some of them began going ashore to sightsee, while others began flying to Britain at the expense of the Pacific Steam Navigation Co. When third-class passengers also asked for air passage, they were told to go ahead-at their own expense...
Smiles in the Motels. The big night shoots are usually the occasion for the Cape's wives to get together while their husbands work. If there is sufficient warning, they gather at patio parties to watch the gushing clouds of steam tinged with pink, the towers ablaze with brilliant greenish-white light, the plumes of clean-burning jet flame. And in the Starlite Motel, which rents 70 of its 87 units to missilemen from Convair, North American Aviation, Bell Telephone Laboratories, A.C. Spark Plug, the practiced observer at after-the-shoot cocktail parties can tell from the demeanor...
...future small-and medium-sized ships, with atom power limited to larger vessels. World's first ship powered solely by gas turbine, a reconditioned ten-knot U.S. Liberty, has run 20,000 trial miles without hitch, averaging about 14.8 knots with lower maintenance costs, less vibration than original steam engine...
Releasing Steam. This was one of the most explosive bits of creative Marxism ever expounded by a Communist ruler. In Mao's eyes, toleration of an occasional strike presumably had at least two things to recommend it. It would give 1) the hard-pressed Chinese masses a chance to let off a bit of steam without doing too much damage, and 2) the government a line on potential revolutionaries. But, as Hungary and Poland had demonstrated, Moscow could only look with horror on the concept of "beneficial small strikes" in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Rumania. (When Khrushchev...
...black workers of Port-au-Prince last week, tears in their eyes. But Daniel Fignole, their idol, could not tell them where he was. He had gone. Nineteen days after he vaulted to power as Provisional President, the silver-tongued mathematics professor, who boasted he could unleash a "steam roller" of black supporters, fell without a shot fired. He went meekly into exile, and was replaced by a military junta...