Word: steers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taken into custody by the Mexican coast guard after Captain E. W. Bartell charged that they threw the boat's food, tools and fishing gear overboard, cut the automatic pilot loose, pulled out a plug in the bait tank, set fire to the engine room, forced him to steer back to port by threatening him with a shotgun and butcher knives, because the cook wanted to visit his pregnant wife...
...their muse in the hallowed grassiness spread between Christ Church and Merton College and the crew-splashed "Isis" that is the River Thames. To Christ Church dons the explanation for it all was maddeningly simple: Minister Sandys was an Oxonian, yes, but a Magdalen man! The idea was to steer through the meadow the High Street traffic that now thunders past Sandys' old college over Magdalen Bridge. This, of course, delighted Magdalen and the other half-dozen colleges fronting on High Street. Oxford's city councilors, pleased that Sandys had made the decision they had been ducking...
...plumped a nervous turkey into his hands. As the days wore on, Kefauver began to show slight signs of weariness. Once he blooped that President Eisenhower "has been stacking the National Labor Relations Board with pro-labor people"; another time, that "the Republicans are winning Maine." At the Cleveland Steer Roast, 40,000 people turned out to hear him drone on aimlessly comparing the administrations of Eisenhower and Grant for an hour ("When Estes is tired," confided an aide, "he just can't stop talking...
...ordinary cases the young steer apparently rolled up his sleeve, winced, got up, and ran away. Frank Wright Garrison's '94 reaction was more extreme...
Between the Reefs. By boosting the price of money and keeping it scarce, the FRB hopes to steer the economy through the twin reefs of industrial overexpansion and wage-price inflation. The demand for loans is outstripping the supply because record levels of employment, wages, spending, business investment and construction are straining U.S. credit resources more heavily than they have been pressed since...