Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...construction costs high and running well above investors' estimates, with the stimulus of the investment tax credit suspended, with the stock market weak, with uncertainty about taxes widespread, and with the business and investing mood gradually becoming less exuberant, powerful additional forces are now operating to take the steam out of the economy." As if to underscore Burns's point, General Motors, Westinghouse, General Electric and other producers of durable goods last week announced production cutbacks...
...estimates that the comet weighed a million million tons, had a nucleus ten miles in diameter, and crashed into the moon at a speed of 35 miles per second. The explosion produced by the stupendous collision was intensified by the comet's high content of ice expanding into steam on impact. The resulting blast produced a crater 60 miles across and at least two miles deep; it hurled pulverized debris hundreds of miles in all directions...
...Steam escaping from a pressure oven in the Bio Labs burned and knocked unconscious a biology researcher late Saturday morning...
Chang said last night the accident was caused by a faulty door on an auto clave, a pressure oven used for sterilization. Built to withstand a pressure of 15 pounds, the door sprung open under about ten pounds, spraying Chang with steam superheated to over 220 degrees Fahrenheit. There was no damage to the building...
...test his theory, Rossow passed a mixture of steam and cool air between two oppositely charged wire grids in his laboratory at NASA's Ames Research Center in California. As the cold air condensed the steam into visible droplets, a tiny, 4-in.-high tornado came into view. But when voltage was removed from the grids, the miniature whirlwind promptly died away...