Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cheers rose from the ranks of scientists and technicians packed into the Cape Canaveral control center when the word came. Millions of Americans watching on morning television breathed a sigh of relief. Those red and orange flames flaring out from beneath the Columbia space shuttle, the immense cloud of steam created by burning liquid oxygen and hydrogen that drifted out to sea were emblems of success. The long delayed final test firing of Columbia's three main engines had at last gone off without a hitch. Columbia's moment of triumph made it probable that as early...
Scrambling back with key blocks from big men Dave Coatsworth (6 ft., 7 in.) and Kevin O'Sullivan (6 ft., 5 in.), the Crimson caught up at six points, but then ran out of steam...
...notice. After all, he was a lord of the boxing rings and regularly paid fighters six-figure purses. Three weeks ago, however, the ruse unraveled. During some routine accounting work, a bank employee spotted serious irregularities in the records and sounded the alarm. Before the investigation picked up steam, both Smith and Lewis were gone. Smith's whereabouts were unknown at week's end, but TIME has learned that last Wednesday Lewis secretly turned himself in to the Los Angeles office of the FBI. Since then, he has been giving his version of what happened at the bank...
...block Davis' plan to move the Raiders to Los Angeles. Then there were the Oakland fans, about to be deserted after 20 years of faithfully riling through the turnstiles. Even New Orleans saloonkeepers wished the Raiders ill after some of the players blew off a bit too much steam in the French Quarter, resulting in fines of more than $15,000 from Coach Tom Flores. Finally, the earnest, all-business Philadelphia Eagles, who had already murdered the Dallas Cowboys in the playoffs, were eager to prove that clean living and hard work will...
Rising costs are McDaniel's biggest concern. He tries to keep his overhead to a minimum by working long hours and closely watching the use of energy. McDaniel opens the shop himself at 7:30 each weekday morning and fires up the boiler that makes steam to press garments. By the tune a helper arrives at 8 a.m., McDaniel has already cleaned a 50-lb. load of clothes and hung them on hangers. His wife helps run the shop, working the counter and mending garments; and all three of their children have also worked there...