Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When HRAAA's campaign--spearheaded by the candidacy of Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu--gained steam, however, top Alumni Association officials launched a bitter attack against the group...
...winter nights when the icy west wind swept the town, I sometimes halted on my post office run to talk to Russell Piper in his tiny dry-cleaning plant. The steam and heat built up a coat of ice an inch or more thick on the windows. He was a shadowy figure behind the glacial facade. But he offered a cup of hot chocolate and unquenchable cheer, even working through the night cleaning other people's grease spots. Rural culture lived through...
Indeed, by the end of the game, the faces were covered with rain, the shirts had long since stuck to the skin, and steam was rising from the bodies on Ohiri Field...
...forest functions like a delicately balanced organism that recycles most of its nutrients and much of its moisture. Wisps of steam float from the top of the endless palette of green as water evaporates off the upper leaves, cooling the trees as they collect the intense sunlight. Air currents over the forest gather this evaporation into clouds, which return the moisture to the system in torrential rains. Dead animals and vegetation decompose quickly, and the resulting nutrients move rapidly from the soil back to growing plants. The forest is such an efficient recycler that virtually no decaying matter seeps into...
Each day the plant collects 900 tons of manure, at $1 a ton, from nearby feedlots. The odoriferous, carbon-rich stuff is dried for two to three months under the hot Imperial Valley sun before it is burned at 1500 degrees F to power the plant's steam turbines. Not one to waste a thing, Parish, 36, eventually hopes to sell the ash left over from the process for possible use in road building or absorbing toxic wastes. Although Mesquite Lake has not yet shown a profit, Parish is already planning a second alternative-energy plant -- to burn crop wastes...