Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marx had faded out of contention, but Howie Foss got up a head of steam in the last 100 yards to close fast on Brown's Bob Taylor. But the charge was a little belated and ended with Foss still gaining ground at the finish but five yards behind the Bruin runner...
...gendarmes loaded their automatic rifles, cut the main roads into Kolwezi and held up the local branch of the Banque du Congo. From the vault they took an additional 30 million francs, then went out and got drunk. That night, as they slept it off in their boxcars, steam engines hissed up, locked on, and hauled them off to Kamina. Thus ended the long estrangement...
...week THRUSH was trying to assassinate the Premier of a new African nation, who was visiting a nuclear chemical plant near Washington. Napoleon Solo and a female companion (Patricia Crowley) in a spangled evening dress tried to prevent the killing and were soon being boiled like lobsters in live steam from the reactor. If all this sounds like the late Ian Fleming, it is. Fleming, while only fleetingly a consultant, was in spirit the creator of the series. Fleming held back a little more than his name. Solo is authentic Bond with a private label...
...Knoxville, Tenn., where folks display bumper stickers reading KEEP TVA -I'D RATHER SELL ARIZONA, Barry said he would "stand by" his recent statement that TVA's steam-generating plants should be sold to private interests. Anyhow, he said, his views make little difference, since even if he were President, he undoubtedly would be overruled by Congress...
...helped James Bond narrowly escape death by drowning, poison, bullets, knives, giant squids, falling cliffs, steam, rocket exhaust, auto wreck, buzz saw, scorpion bite, lethal plants, suffocation and surfeit of women. But there was no one to reciprocate for Ian Fleming, last week, in his apartment at Sandwich, where he was holidaying after reading proof on his latest, and last, James Bond adventure, The Man With the Golden Gun. He suffered a second heart attack, and four hours after he reached a hospital at Canterbury, Ian Fleming died. He had already spoken his own epitaph. "Oh," he said...