Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rugby team ran out of steam after winning the first three matches of its southern tour and finished up with a 3-1-1 record...
Inspired by wild discrepancies in reports of earlier UFO sightings, Science Students Terry Warren, James Gould and Douglas Eardley decided to perform a complex "gullibility experiment." Working secretly in a steam tunnel under the Caltech campus, they rigged balloons out of polyethylene sheeting and filled them with an inert gas-probably helium. From the bottom of the balloons they suspended metal rods, each with fins and a railroad flare fastened to its lower...
...plug the leak would be for the Administration to take some steam out of the domestic economy-but such a course would bring results slowly. Some businessmen insist that the Government needlessly hampers the efforts of U.S. firms to sell abroad by mindless application of domestic anti-trust laws, by tax penalties, and by weak commercial staffs in embassies. Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, last week argued for legislation creating new export tax incentives, which are often of little help...
...Tinted Steam." "Indistinctness is my forte," Turner declared while whirling his images into vortexes of color. On occasion, nature vied with his vision. When he was 59, London's Houses of Parliament were gutted by fire. Turner, who rarely used more than a pencil to sketch out-of-doors, rushed to the bank of the Thames to brush out nine water-colors of the burning buildings (see opposite). He even blotted his copybook pages against each other in his eagerness to capture that dramatic scene. A romantic's delirium, it was the apocalypse brought to reality-the flames...
...contemporaries, such works were full of unrecognizable "blots." Constable, also experimenting in colored light, labeled Turner's work "tinted steam." It was a shrewd perception for, in the days of the burgeoning Industrial Revolution, Turner eventually abandoned trite old themes to depict railway trains and steamships roiling, almost defiantly and often indistinctly, through mist and fog. When he titled a painting Sunrise with a Boat Between Headlands, the subject was neither topography nor the boat, which is a barely visible blob, but light refracted by mist...