Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party went first to the vast, white-tiled kitchen, a gleaming expanse of stainless steel refrigerators, steam tables and ovens, fluorescent lighting and an electrical control board big enough for a theater. This, said the President, is where the housekeeper keeps the groceries. Next, he pointed out what he called the tooth carpenter's place-a three-room medical-dental suite-and warned the reporters to behave themselves, else he might send some of them in there for a major operation...
After more digging and burrowing in burial plots and among kitchen middens, Dr. Orr drew some conclusions about his forgotten Indians. They took steam baths, and lived mostly on red abalone, which they gathered off the rocks by diving deep. They also ate sea lions, seals and whales. At their religious ceremonies, the instrumental music was supplied by little bone whistles. When children died, Dr. Orr suspects, their bodies were buried in a special place or thrown into the sea; only two skeletons of children were found in the cemetery. Why did the Red Heads paint the skulls of their...
...average housewife has little more training than that afforded by an elective home economics course in high school. With this, she is expected to deal daily with steam and hot liquids, fire, sharp hand tools, glass and other fragile objects, detergents, harsh cleansers and abrasives, active poisons [drain solvents, ammonia, lye, etc.] and complicated mechanical and electrical appliances...
Heart of the new launcher is a slotted cylinder through which a piston is driven by high-pressure steam from the main boilers. Even during steady use, the large demand for steam does not interfere with operation of the ship's turbines. Nearly every type of Britain's newest carrier planes has been catapulted, and enthusiastic pilots report that the launching is an entirely new experience. "It eases you up so beautifully," said a U.S. flyer attached to the Fleet Air Arm, "that you almost forget you're being catapulted...
Because the powerful new catapult should often make it unnecessary for a ship to steam into the wind for long periods to get its planes away, the British Admiralty expects it to revolutionize naval air tactics. If it works as well with heavy U.S. attack bombers and torpedo planes as it has in tests with lighter planes of the Fleet Air Arm, it will be installed as standard equipment in carriers of the British, Australian and Canadian navies, may also be adopted...