Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Park Station, many of the men in batwing collars and the women in high-button shoes and Victorian bonnets. To the strains of When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam', the Bluebell-consisting for the present of two freshly painted wooden coaches between a brace of antique steam engines -chuffed down the track at a sedate 25 m.p.h. Minutes later, reaching the end of the line, the volunteer engineer and fireman hopped out, hurried around to the rear engine, fired it up and brought the train, all whistles blowing, triumphantly back to the station...
...ancient steam-driven train from Palermo chugged out of the Sicilian hill town of Zucco-Montelepre one night last week, four masked men emerged from the shadows and hopped aboard the mail car. Guns drawn, they warned the lone mail clerk not to move or they would kill him. Ripping open mail sacks, they collected $19,000, then jumped from the train, leaving the clerk trussed up on the floor. The stationmaster back in Zucco-Montelepre's rickety railroad station, which is eerily lit by flickering oil lamps, allowed as how he had seen the men before the holdup...
...defiance of U.N. attempts to bring about order (see FOREIGN NEWS). "With other United Nations members," said Lodge, "we will do whatever may be necessary to prevent the intrusion of any military forces not requested by the United Nations." The firm rejoinder-for the moment, at least -took the steam out of Soviet bluster about unilateral troop lifts...
...criticize Miss Novak because her tone of voice is always the same is as absurd as criticizing a Byzantine ikon because it is static and badly drawn." Sniffed Kauffmann, in what tellectuals" undoubtedly is like not the Updike, "a last film word: to theater "in is a kind of steam bath or opium den to which one goes for a faintly wicked and figuratively supine little debauch . . . Pre sumably Miss Novak as Medea would raise him to the heights of Kimiolatry." . . . In her modest home by a Southern California orange grove, Hannah Nixon, 75, widowed mother of the Vice Presi...
...greater the adversary, the rougher the battle. His most venomous attacks, though, were reserved for women. Marriage, Barnes often said, was just a cheap and wholesome substitute for prostitution. He delighted in bullying female employees into tears, embarrassed one young secretary by dictating letters to her from his steam bath, interspersing his correspondence with commands to fetch towels and turn on the shower for him. When Edith Powell, art critic for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, had some mild reservations about the Soutines in a rare public exhibit of Barnes's paintings, he wrote her a thunderous letter stating that...