Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moved toward the computer. As early as 1671 Gottfried Leibnitz sought unsuccessfully to invent a mechanical calculating machine. "It is unworthy of excellent men," he wrote, "to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation." In 1834 an eccentric Englishman named Charles Babbage conceived the idea of a steam-driven "Analytical Engine" that in many details anticipated the basic principles of modern computers. But not until 1944 did man invent the first true computer: the Mark I, developed by Harvard Professor Howard Aiken and used to compute weapon trajectories for the U.S. Navy...
Detroit has built up a terrific head of steam, and with four of its last six games at home and three of them against New York and Boston, the Wings can't be stopped from winning their first championship in eight years...
...farm message, President Johnson promised "to reduce the cost of this program and the level of [cotton] stocks." But nobody expects the Administration to propose more than minor alterations in the current program-and cotton is likely to remain the only U.S. crop that is subsidized from stem to steam whistle...
...discrepancy between our cerebral modes of thought and action and the unprecedented novelty of the circumstances in which we now live. The present age has made the idea of the nation-state as obsolete as feudalism was made obsolete 200 years ago by the invention of the steam engine. We must face the atomic age with a transformation of the whole way our government thinks and acts." In rejoinder, Protestant Theologian Paul Ramsey of Princeton warned that immediate abandonment of the nation concept was hardly practical, and certainly not in accord with the ideas of Pacem in Terris...
...recently attempted suicide following a minor auto accident. But there is no comfort to be had, for here within walking distance of Dante's tomb sprawls a 20th century Inferno. Above her, towering smokestacks throw flame into the sky, while the pipelines of industrial Ravenna belch steam onto the wasted earth...