Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encountered larger and more enthusiastic crowds at every airport and rally. (In Manchester, N.H. his pregnant wife Jackie prudently left the entourage and went home because of the crushing crowds and fast-stepping pace.) With each new audience, he seemed to respond more enthusiastically, to work up more steam. At one point he talked as though the rest of the nation wasn't listening, hinting broadly that trade protectionism could solve New England's industrial decline-an attitude quite different from the Democratic low tariff stance set by F.D.R. Said Kennedy in Manchester: "We can protect our textile...
Time was when high-spirited citizens of Buffalo Gap. Texas (pop. 335) let off steam by bucketing down the main street on their perkiest cow ponies. Then came automobiles-but little else changed. Everyone still barreled through town at a breakneck clip. The sheriff was twelve miles away in Abilene, as remote as he was in the old freewheeling frontier days of wagon trains and trail herds...
...rather pagan emblems, but a Liberty, I fear, is the best we can get." And so Sculptor Thomas Crawford set to work in his studio in Rome. The model he made was nearly lost at sea. but eventually his 14,985-lb. statue, cast in bronze, was raised by steam hoist to its permanent perch. It is the strange figure that looms behind the heads of Senator Margaret Chase Smith and her opponent, Maine Assemblywoman Lucia Cormier, on this week's cover of TIME. It is a lady of earnest intention but of dubious quality, who is a member...
...Steam & Soap. In a sensible introduction to The Bedbug and Selected Poetry Editor Patricia Blake recognizes the danger of clinging to any single clue to explain why the poet courted death. Mayakovsky had suffered a nervous breakdown, had been ill with a stubborn grippe, and was always 'deadly bored." In spite of his popularity, he was chronically lonely and in spite of his laureate's standing the shifting Party lines of Soviet literature had left him with a persecution complex. Besides, the latest of his long series of love affairs was going badly. Most important...
...Bluebell will run three times a day on weekends (47? a round trip first class, 35? second). Between its fares and the contributions of buffs from Nairobi to New York, the Bluebell Society expects to "preserve puffers for posterity." And with Britain alone scuttling an average of four steam locomotives a day, says Captain Peter Manistry, R.N. (ret.), a charter Bluebell member, "we can select the best steams from everywhere. Why, we'll be unique...