Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turks." Though Governor Knight has moved cautiously in replacing Warrenites with his own men, the coalition has become California's dominant political force. Warrenites are still in technical control of the party machinery at the state level, but a revolt of Nixon-Knight county chairmen has been gathering steam. These men are determined either to take over the state committee, or to cripple it by cutting off the money they raise for it. To such moves, some Warrenites respond by joining the Nixon-Knight coalition; others, like National Committeewoman Marjorie Benedict, threaten to make a fight...
...Literary Life. In Milwaukee, Mrs. Eleanor Trier told officials that she had stolen a jacket, steam iron, and skirt from a department store only because a stranger had asked her to do "research" for a book on shoplifting, promised to mention her name in the book...
...Women at their marketing, men at their daily trade, the cobbler at his bench, the ploughman trudging the furrow-all learned to know the awful smell of burning human flesh, the flesh of a neighbor, of a man or woman as familiar as the parish pump. Mingling with the steam of washing day, or with the reek of autumn bonfires, or polluting the sweetness of June, that stench . . . even in a cruel age, left behind it a memory and a disgust...
...Chicago, the Admiral Corp., discovering that scores of Great Lakes freighters are now equipped with TV sets, reported that ships can steam 986 miles from Buffalo to Duluth, Minn, with "relatively few non-TV reception areas." Uplift note reported by Admiral: Great Lakes sailors are so entranced by TV that they no longer "have to go ashore to seek entertainment...
Yard proctors were not disturbed by the roistering, however. Head Yard Proctor Frank yam said last night that "blowing off steam this way is natural and we don't object to anyone's having a good time. When a riot can lead to property damage or injury we have the responsibility of stopping...