Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main waiting room is almost a duplicate of the hall of the old Baths of Caracalla. The station also has a classical colonnaded facade, broad and elegant staircases, a huge, skylighted concourse with vaulting arches of lacy steel and glass. It smells of past grandeur and wars and old steam and tears and waitin'-for-the-train-to-come-in. All this is going to be torn down because it no longer makes economic sense...
...knows his own strength. Liston literally has knocked the stuffing out of a 45-lb. punching bag with one swipe of his right fist. He laughs disdainfully while Trainer Reddish slams a 12-lb. medicine ball into his stomach. In The Pines' steam room one day, Liston picked up a 50-lb. weight with his right hand, casually tossed it up over his head and caught it with his left. Gasped Polino: "If you had dropped it, it would have been all over...
...small. After a careful countdown, a brilliant spout of flame bursts from its throat, and a sound beyond description rolls across the desert. The flame hits a steel deflector 130 ft. below, spreads in a wide fan, and pushes ahead of it a dense cloud of smoke, steam, dust and rocks...
...family machine shop, Henschel had long ranked as Europe's biggest producer of railroad locomotives and one of the Continent's major truck builders. But in the years following World War II, the company's family management stubbornly continued to concentrate on steam locomotives while Europe's railroads clamored for diesels and electrics. By 1958 Henschel was losing $2,000,000 a year, and creditors were beginning to encircle its huge new plant in the Hessian city of Kassel...
...beat-up aspiring model myself (Miss Atlantic City, Miss Steam Iron of 1941), I can think of better ways to pass my summer than spending it with models...