Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...characters in the history of U.S. drama, Colonel Nimrod Wildfire of Kentucky occupies a special place. He claimed to be "half horse, half alligator [and] a touch of the airth-quake." He had "the prettiest sister, fastest horse, and ugliest dog in the deestrict." He could "tote a steam boat up the Mississippi and over the Alleghany mountains." His father could "whip the best man in old Kaintuck, and I can whip my father." All in all, the colonel was a wow back in the 1830s-the literary prototype of the tall-talking frontiersman, the first introduction to the stage...
...Cleveland unannounced one evening at 9:30 p.m., found "not a man working. They were all in the locker room, although they don't go off work until 11." He shut down the shop. With better use of diesels, he found that he could retire 381 less efficient steam locomotives, leaving only...
...many U.S. hospitals are antiquated, inefficient and unsightly, from the scurvy brick of their exteriors to the .scaly boilers of the steam-heating plants. In crowded corridors the wagon bearing a sheeted corpse may collide with another carrying the patients' lunches. In most wards, with 20 or more beds, the quiet and relaxation essential to recovery are impossible, and even private rooms are drab, fitfully heated and ill-ventilated. There are some gleaming exceptions, among them the Clinical Center of the National Institute of Health at Bethesda, Md., the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Los Angeles, the Jefferson Medical College...
...fail, the primary cause will be inadequate aggregate demand. And there is no assurance that the economy, operating on its own steam, will generate adequate demand. Concerned as we must be with technical research and higher and higher levels of efficiency, we may not achieve our goal if we neglect this crucial requisite for growth and expansion. Foreign economies are often presented with different problems. But for the American Economy, the element of greatest uncertainty is the adequacy of aggregate demand...
...chorus sang the simplest kind of melody, from mild love lyrics and nursery-rhyme interludes to rowdy drinking songs and Teutonic gallops, set against passages of syncopated whispering and of sudden, surprising fortissimos. The orchestra sometimes provided halfhearted modernities, medieval primitivisms. Its percussion section was usually busy as a steam calliope on circus day. Most of the lyrics were in vulgarized but vital Latin, with simple driving rhythms. Sample...