Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once they are all settled, the movie loses steam. It is reduced to a series of Jack's clashes with the lobster restaurant's very special customer who, at least in his own mind, is somewhat of a big deal around Citrus Grove, Florida...
...Before the Palm Sunday vote, political observers had given the Christian Democrats little chance for a strong showing, certainly not for a majority in the Assembly. That judgment was based on a feeling that Duarte's government somehow had run out of steam. Popular expectations were at a fever pitch last October, when the President held a historic first meeting with leaders of the left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) and its political arm, the Democratic Revolutionary Front (F.D.R.), to discuss ways of ending the war. A second meeting in November led nowhere. The chief reason: Duarte...
...netmen, who travelled to California for a tournament and a series of dual matches, came away with a 5-3 record and a full head of steam going into their Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Association season opener this week...
...came down like rain, but what was falling on a West Virginia shopping mall was a chemical compound that had leaked from a Union Carbide plant in South Charleston. About 5,700 lbs. of a mixture containing mesityl oxide escaped when an excessive amount of steam built up in a distillation tank. The stinging substance sent four people to the hospital. Others were treated for nausea and tissue irritation...
...about eight months, and at 7:30 on Feb. 7, the birthday morning, the view from a frost-coated Palmer House window was of what a local writer, Chuck Rathe, calls glittering bitterness--a sub-zero refraction of sunrise on salt and ice and frost, sparkling through clouds of steam and smoke, the air itself turned to veils. The cold and the seeping, whistling presence they call "that wind!" are eerie and somehow ominous...