Word: steams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...destruction at all, true. But that can lead two ways. Either it means we stopped short (as Newsweek claims in a recent cover story), or it means that we have to absolutely destroy everything so there is no evidence to see. Vaporizing bodies, burying them alive, plowing them with steam shovels into mass graves, sweeping them under the carpet bombing--that is the problem...
...waterfront is lined with piles of twisted metal -- rusty foothills to the backdrop of Philadelphia's skyscrapers directly across the river. And in March of 1990, Camden County opened its first trash incinerator, where 1,500 tons of garbage from the suburbs is trucked each day and turned to steam. To complete the sense of a town left to pinch out a living on refuse, two prisons -- one county and one state -- dominate the center of the city and the waterfront...
Undergraduates blew off pre-exam steam with the traditional midnight screams this past Sunday night. But despite the late night camaraderie in the Yard and several houses, the mood has for the most part been, well, rather somber this past week...
...between the U.S. and Japan was inevitable, it had probably been inevitable for a long time, perhaps as long ago as July 8, 1853. That was the day when Commodore Matthew Perry sailed his black-hulled steam frigate Susquehanna into Edo Bay (now Tokyo Bay) and "opened" Japan at gunpoint, after more than two centuries of self-imposed isolation, to American merchants and missionaries. Humiliated, the Japanese decided to modernize their feudal regime by imitating the barbarian invaders. They hired French officers to retrain their soldiers and British shipbuilders to create their navy. From the Germans they learned the secrets...
...cloudless sky, vulnerable as a jeweled dowager surrounded by more than 80 switchblades. The warships zigzagged wildly as they unleashed a barrage of antiaircraft fire, but it was a hopeless mismatch. Two torpedoes tore apart the Prince of Wales' stern, disabling its rudder, filling its engine room with steam. The Repulse dodged nearly 20 torpedoes before four more ripped her open...