Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem child, Baiae, a few miles north of modern Naples, was Rome's ritziest seaside resort. There the patricians, attracted by the hot springs which gushed from the hillsides, built their sumptuous villas on terraces cut in the slope. Elaborate baths (hot and cold swimming pools with steam rooms, massage and floor shows) cleansed and entertained vacationing senators and consuls. The place acquired a highly questionable reputation. The dramatist Terence wrote: "At Baiae one never knows what the night will bring," and the poet Propertius warned his girl friend that "The waters of Baiae lead to immoral love...
Canadian political campaigns traditionally generate a gentlemanly head of steam toward election time, as the rival candidates slug it out for votes in the nation's populous heartland of Ontario and Quebec, where 160 of Parliament's 265 seats will be decided. Last week a Canadian Institute of Public Opinion poll reported that, of voters expressing a preference, 47% were pro-Liberal, 30% pro-Conservative. But the Liberals apparently have lost ground in Ontario, and some Tories, recalling last year's U.S. elections, professed to sense a "time-for-a-change" ground swell in their favor...
...everywhere, was stepped up in America by the individualism of the frontier and the frontiersman's vision of a future that would escape and dwarf the past. This was part of the Spirit of '76, and it marched west with the mountain men, the wagon trains, the steam cars, and the jalopies of the Great Depression...
...around of the coronation. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, convalescing in the U.S. from a bile-duct operation, would not be back on the job for at least another four months, and there was no assurance that when he did get back he would be able to operate at full steam. Wan, irritable and sometimes forgetful of late, Sir Winston, it appeared, had simply worn himself down...
Ships to Race. The time is the turn of the century. The ships are three- and four-masted craft, fighting the. losing battle of sail against steam as they race with their cargoes of grain and nitrates out of Australia, Chile and San Francisco, round Cape Horn to their French home ports. From these ports come the homeless, hard-bitten men who man them-a surly lot, mostly shanghaied aboard by brothel-keepers to whom the poor fellows have lost every franc. As vicious as any man caught in this vicious cycle is Common Seaman Rolland, who is lugged aboard...