Word: steams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Surprisingly, one of the most talked-about substitutes is the old-fashioned steam engine, which enabled the Stanley Steamer to reign briefly in the early part of the century as queen of the road. The steamer was dethroned because it was costly to buy, its water boiler required constant replenishment, and it was slow to start. Today, in corporate laboratories and amateur workshops all across the country, tinkerers and dreamers are trying to overcome these formidable obstacles...
...magistrate-midgets who greet Judy Garland in the land of Oz. Geralyn Williams as Putana, Annabella's buxom attendant, is a parody, in every stagy sense of the term, of the ribald nurse. Maeve Kinkead as Hippolita-the sex-starved Wronged Woman of the piece-storms around like a steam engine out of control until releasing the last painful gasps of her already overstrained voice on a mobile platform which sucks her back into the central recess of the set. Maeve and company-a little friendly advice: don't try so damn hard...
...Steam fitters everywhere can be thankful that the writer of the item on apprentice examinations [March 1] has nothing to do with writing those exams...
Another witness, Major Clement E. St. Martin, told the subcommittee that when he protested the steam baths he was upbraided by former Sergeant Major William Woolridge, the Army's top noncom and one of six sergeants indicted for service club infractions. Woolridge menacingly asked St. Martin: "Don't you know you can get hurt?" St. Martin replied: "Let me remind you a major still outranks a sergeant." Not always. St. Martin is now executive officer of the armed forces induction center in Newark, N.J.-hardly the kind of assignment designed to further a career...
...like a destroyer heading full-steam towards the shore," said a close associate of Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath last week. "There's only so much sea room, and it's running out fast." Winter usually brings snarls to otherwise stiff British upper lips, but there is a mood of discontent and even despair in Britain today that is unlikely to disappear, as it normally does, with the first daffodils...