Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a chuff of steam and a skirl of wheels, the aged black locomotive pulled out of Danang, carrying 500 passengers bound for Hue. Soon it began to climb toward the mist-shrouded Ai Van Pass. As the train reached the crest and began its freewheeling descent, the passengers relaxed-prematurely. Suddenly the rails snapped like broken rubber bands as a Viet Cong pressure mine exploded. When the smoke cleared, the passengers-fortunately uninjured-clambered wearily through the brambles to nearby Route 1 and thumbed or hiked their way into Hue. It was business as usual on South Viet...
...sixth straight year of expansion, the economy is scraping up against the top limits of its current capacity. Growth has been so strong for so long that the U.S. has almost fully closed the gap between what it is actually producing and what it could theoretically produce at top steam. Just five years ago, economists calculated the gap at more than $50 billion; now the escalating demands of consumers, corporations and the Pentagon are straining the U.S.'s supply of men and machines. The nation is encountering what Johnson's report called "the problems of prosperity...
...aerial expressions of art in motion. Giacometti's Suspended Ball of 1931, Brancusi's Fish on a rotating pedestal of 1926, Thomas Wilfred's lumias of the 1930s with swimming projections of colored light-all these were what Watt's apocryphal teakettle was to the steam turbine...
...that will face his administration: the city's $200 million deficit, his plans to streamline the government, appointments to key posts. He even found time to slip away to the City Athletic Club, where he took a swim, did two sets of 20 push-ups and had a steam bath. One of his early goals as mayor is to renovate the gym in city hall-a facility rarely used during previous administrations...
There is quite a ritual to the occasion. First to come to the Ginza each after noon are the icemen, their saws slashing through great frozen blocks destined for dilution in tumblers of whisky. Next are the fragrant wagons of the noodle vendors, trailing plumes of steam in the neon sunset. Then come the girls-300,000 of them-to work in the 3,000 clubs of Tokyo's six sakaba (drinking quarters). Wispy-bearded Santa Clauses, a legacy of the American occupation, parade in sandwich boards that proclaim the virtues (or lack of them) of such establishments...