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Word: steams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ahead, number three," says the Chief. Number three swings a kitten high above his head and slams it at a log. The Chief, wearing a pair of rubber gloves, scissors a long smooth cut in the skin, "exposes the large, red-black liver and unwinds the immaculate bow els. Steam rises. He gropes in the abdominal cavity and plucks from it the tiny ruby heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Terrible Tykes | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

Erhard's amiable way of meeting the challenge was to let the pros blow off steam. Postponing decisions until the week before the Bundestag convened on Oct. 20 to re-elect him Chancellor, he took off for a holiday by the Tegernsee, leaving stage center in Bonn to former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, who bosses the 49-man Bavarian branch of the C.D.U. known as the Christian Social Union. Strauss began announcing to reporters and anyone else who would listen, that Erhard must dump Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, a well-known "Atlanticist" who believes that Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Rubber Lion Strikes Again | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

...night last week, the giant awoke with a roar. Rock and mud, steam and magma belched from its 44-mile-deep core. Two villages vanished under a newly created lagoon nearly a mile long. Orange lava licked its way down the southern slopes of Taal, on top of roof-deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Belch of a Killer | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

Most of the world's 200 desalinization plants, though, from Kuwait to Aruba to Chocolate Bayou, Texas, operate on the "teakettle technique," the colloquial name for multistage flash distillation. In this system, sea water is heated and sprayed into a low-pressure chamber where it flashes into steam. As it passes through a series of similar chambers, even more fresh water is steamed off until, in the more efficient operations, an average of 3½ gallons of sea water is turned into a gallon of fresh. So pure is the result that sometimes a jigger of such contaminants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hydrology: A Question of Birthright | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...second largest court judgment against the electrical companies since the Great Conspiracy was uncovered. He ordered the General Electric Co. and the Westinghouse Electric Corp. to pay $16.8 million in damages to the Ohio Valley Electric Corp. and its subsidiary, Indiana-Kentucky Electric Corp., for overcharging on eleven steam-turbine generators that the two Midwest utilities purchased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antitrust: The High Cost of Price Fixing | 9/10/1965 | See Source »

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