Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everywhere, on mud walls and in expensive neon lights, the Congress Party svmbol of two yoked oxen could be seen. Virtually helpless to fight against the incumbent party's steam roller, all the opposition could do was hope to build, as one of them put it, "a healthy opposition" against the day when Nehru will not be around...
...Jordan, that wide space in the desert which has little reason for nationhood, the noisily Nationalist government has been losing steam. Young (21) King Hussein a fortnight ago wrote Premier Suleiman Nabulsi bluntly: "We now detect the danger of Communist infiltration in our Arab homeland, and the threat posed by those who feign loyalty to Arab nationalism, indulge in hullabaloo, prevarications, falsehood and heroics, thereby seeking to conceal their evil designs against Arab nationalism and the fact that they cooperate with our enemies in misleading the masses and exploiting the people...
When the chain reaction starts, the water boils, forming high-pressure steam as in an ordinary coal-fired boiler. The steam, which is slightly radioactive, goes directly to a turbogenerator which turns its energy into electricity. Lack of an intermediate heat-exchanger to generate nonradioactive steam is the characteristic feature of the EBWR, and one of its advantages as an economical power producer. Chief disadvantage: because of the radioactivity of the steam, the turbine, condenser and related equipment are also radioactive and must be operated by remote control...
...staging department, the present Ring is freighted with virtually the same visual improbabilities that burdened it in the past. Ponderous gods and goddesses lumbered clumsily toward one another across the gigantic stage. Papier-mâché dragons belched steam, dwarfs disappeared in clouds of vapor, magic fires raced across the sky at the wave of a wand. For reasons of economy, the Met made no effort to replace the worn sets originally designed and constructed for the Ring nearly a decade ago. A complete restaging, estimates Manager Bing, would cost a prohibitive $300,000. Though he refuses...
...Sculptor Max Kratz. Asked to design two door handles for the main doors through which Düsseldorf's Rhinelanders must pass to pay such local levies as dog taxes, school taxes and licensing fees, Sculptor Kratz "felt an irresistible urge to help taxpayers let off some steam and at the same time give them some consolation. I wanted the poor devils to understand that for centuries taxes have been collected, and there really is no use resisting the pain." His solution: a smiling figure with hands full of gold coins representing the taxpayer as he enters, another figure...