Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simulated April Showers, or droppings from camels in the Nativity pageant, or oil slick from a fleet of autos used to ferry the chorus onstage, the girls are lucky to land on their toes and not their backsides. On one occasion a Rockette slipped in a cloud of steam hissing up through holes in the stage, plummeted into the orchestra pit and squashed a violinist...
...Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Steam...
...organized by President Joseph Mobutu's Mouvement Populaire Revolutionnaire, the only legal political party in the Congo. Outside the Belgian embassy in Kinshasa, it began to work up quite a head of steam for its "spontaneous anti-imperialist demonstration." Primary object was to protest the seven-week-old rebellion of the Congo's white mercenaries, who were fired by Mobutu and subsequently captured the border city of Bukavu by force. Loudspeaker trucks promised immediate satisfaction to all loyal Congolese right there in Kinshasa. Before the shouting was over, announced the sound trucks, the Belgian, French and British ambassadors...
...dangerous young male driver is one alone in his car," says Schuman, "because he will take amazing chances alone that he wouldn't take if someone were with him." The researchers found that the young male driver is using the car as an "expressive" instrument to blow off steam after an argument with his family or girl, or to gain relief from problems caused by school grades or draft worries. In finding an outlet for his frustrations and anxieties, he is also unconsciously releasing suicidal and homicidal impulses...
...might think the last riot let off a lot of the steam. But I think the steam may just be beginning to build up now," he said...