Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Times was actually spouting steam about Jack Kennedy. The President, raged the Times in an editorial last week, had allowed "personal feelings publicly to bolster and promote and strengthen one of the most encrusted, anachronistic and anti-democratic of New York City's historic political bosses...
...they also took a beating in many prosperous suburban communities where householders were still cross with the government for recently increasing their local taxes (from 50% to 300%). National opinion polls, which in the past have proved fairly accurate, apparently reflected Britons' satisfaction with a new head of steam that has begun to appear in the economy. Torn between contradictory portents, psephologists and politicians were about equally divided on whether the general election will be held this fall or next year...
Rounding the stretch turn, No Robbery ran out of steam and began to fade. Never Bend was tiring, too, but he was all by himself in the lead: caught in tight quarters along the rail, Willie Shoemaker was forced to check Candy Spots and take him wide. Then he swung his whip-and nothing happened. "I asked Spots to run," Shoemaker said sadly, "but he just wasn't there." One horse was there: Chateaugay. Ranging up on the outside, Chateaugay zoomed past No Robbery as if the two were traveling in opposite directions. Then he caught Candy Spots...
...week of rioting of their own, distributing anonymously mimeographed programs and arranging sundry insurrectionary functions. The demonstrations, intended to include a burning of Gen Ed books on Widener steps and a panty raid on Radcliffe, were designed for the sake of undergraduate "mental health," to let off the steam of a year's study; but the plans fizzled for several nights in a dreary row and were finally, sadly abandoned...
Everyone would rather work for himself and earn more than work for the collective, he laments. "It's the same old story. A real vicious circle. In order to be paid well, people should work full steam, since the kolkhoz has no other resources but their work. But people will not work for the kolkhoz because they are not well paid. How can I break the circle? Party officials tell me. 'You're not a good leader. Your agitation-educational work is slack.' But how do you propagandize today's kolkhoznik? Without the ruble...