Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from overhead gravity tanks poured down in slippery streams on the tilted deck plates. Steam began to fail. The whine of the turbines diminished. Despite the struggles of the exhausted engineers, the generator failed, and with it power for lights and the laboring pumps...
When aircraft carriers of the U.S. Navy make ready to launch their planes, they turn into the wind and steam at high speed. But even with a stiff breeze whipping across the flight deck, attack bombers and jet fighters often need a large and cumbersome catapult to boost them up to flying speed. And on a hot, calm day, the thrust of this giant slingshot is barely enough to toss them aloft...
...proper to accept a ham under twelve pounds, but not a bigger one. Democratic Chairman William Boyle resigned his job under a cumulus cloud of influence peddling, and his successor was hardly in office before clouds gathered over him too. The public worked up quite a head of indignant steam over scandals in the Bureau of Internal Revenue, which was taking more of its money than ever before. This indignation fell like a load of hay on Harry Truman. Perhaps it would be the understatement of the year to say that 1951 was not Truman's year...
...Miles of Track. Importing twice what it exports, the country must write its budget in red. The kingdom's rail transport consists of one steam engine, two diesels, a few ramshackle freight cars, and only 200 miles of track to run them on. Between Tripoli, which is the country's largest city, and Fezzan, its largest province, there are no telephone, telegraph or radio connections. Nor is there much homogeneity between the three provinces. Except for the late years of Italian rule (1935 until World War II), Tripolitania (pop. 800,000), Cyrenaica (pop. 300,000) and Fezzan...
...freshman intramural basketball National League, mighty Wigglesworth West went on to win their eighth straight victory by steam rolling Thayer South 50 to 20 Weld North went into unchallenged second place by virtue of its Monday win over Strauss South and its for felt win over Dudley last night. Two games ago, Weld North and Dudley were tied for second with records of five wins and one loss. In other games, Lionel best Strauss South 29 to 19, Hollis beat Massachusetts 40 to 17, and Matthews South beat Orkyh...