Word: steams
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that the Goldwater bandwagon has picked up a full head of steam, National Review is already looking beyond the election. This week it publishes a 16,000-word A Program for a Goldwater Administration. Sample advice: Goldwater should man the battlements of states' rights ("within the federal harem, the states today are merely eunuchs"), invade Cuba if necessary, insist that Russia dismantle its "world revolutionary apparatus" and retire to its borders...
...Steam-Kettle Hamlet. Feelings build up pressure inside him gradually until he blows his lid and there is a hot outburst. Then the process starts over again. In the over-all view of the role, this cycle emerges with too much regularity. After a while the graph of Sawyer's performance becomes too predictable. His farewell, however, is anything but predictable. He is the only Hamlet I have ever seen who, though stabbed and poisoned, remained standing on both legs right up to the very moment of death. I find that an admirable idea. One who recently contemplated suicide...
...tried everything short of intervention to bring about a change in Haiti. It has cut off all aid, pulled out its ambassador, even sent a Navy task force to steam around outside the three-mile limit for a few weeks. But Duvalier remained unmoved, and in the meantime Haiti's economy went from bad to worse. On paper, per capita income is $70 a year, lowest in the hemisphere; the real figure may be as low as $15. Now, to alleviate at least a little of the misery, the dollars are flowing again: $2,360,000 in Inter-American...
Pittsburgh is a city with a head of steam, a heart of steel and one subject on its tongue. The steel chieftains ponder it in their exclusive Duquesne Club; the middle managers anxiously debate it in the Bar D'Or at the Penn-Sheraton Hotel; the mill hands chew it along with pretzels and pistachios in beery saloons from Ambridge to Donora. The subject: the change that is coming over the United States Steel Corp. Behind the closed doors of its executive suites, the world's largest steelmaker is shaking through the greatest reorganization in modern U.S. business...
...longer advocates selling the entire TVA to private business, but would sell the steam-generating plants and the fertilizer program that are associated with...