Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yale police would not comment on the fact that a male Caucasian wearing a Yale hockey jersey, a blue bandanna, and blue sunglasses was driving a steam shovel through downtown New Haven at a fast rate last night...
...break-in was reported two nights ago at the main Building and Grounds maintenance yard. A steam shovel, a blowtorch, and 100,000 square feet of sod were the only items taken as a result of the heist, the first such heist of this scale in recent memory...
Back in the cottage, while Dan makes tea downstairs, Beth prepares her bath. With her robe she erases steam from the bathroom mirror. Alex is standing behind her, carrying a knife. Softly, she asks Beth, "What are you doing here?" In her frayed mind she may already be Mrs. Dan Gallagher, her hubby in the kitchen, their imminent child asleep in her womb. Who is this presumptuous intruder in Alex's dream cottage? Someone who doesn't deserve to play happy family. Someone who deserves to die. Their struggle for the knife finally alerts Dan, who rushes upstairs, overpowers Alex...
Microbrews accounted for only .03% of the 180 million bbl. of beer made in America last year, but sales are frothing. No one is more surprised than Fritz Maytag, scion of the washing-machine family, who in 1965 bought the Anchor Steam Beer Brewing Co. of San Francisco and went on to earn the title "the father of microbrewing." Says Maytag: "I'm just bamboozled. It's astonishing to see the number of breweries and brands that we started." That number increased from twelve microbreweries and brew pubs in North America in 1983 to 96 this year. In Boston last...
...Mecca-bound Arabs, discourages Sherman from reporting the incident to the police. Unfortunately, the mother of the badly injured boy is a friend of the Rev. Reginald Bacon's, whose specialty is political pressure and misappropriating social-service funds for his private use, an activity he justifies as "steam control." Bacon is shrewd, cunning, outrageous and, like the other shrewd, cunning, outrageous characters in Bonfire, not necessarily bigger than life...