Word: boil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laden depth charges hurtling into the dark sea. Then another burst, and another. The ship's stern bucked like a blooded stallion. From the sea came a lightning flash and muffled thunder, then the water fountained. The next and the next charges were deeper, making the sea boil and rumble...
...University of Minnesota, Physiologist Maurice B. Visscher has developed a one-man "belly still" (worn strapped around the waist) which uses body heat to boil sea water at low temperature, under partial vacuum, to yield drinkable fluid...
...Selfridge had more gunplay. A sentry discovered two civilians scaling a fence into the field and fired on them when they ignored his command to halt. One escaped in the dark; the other, seriously wounded, was identified as a former Detroit salesman. The Selfridge pot had come to a boil...
...were cooking something in boiling water and wanted to hurry, you should (a) increase the heat so the water would boil more rapidly, (b) put a cover on the pot (c) pour off some water, (d) use an airtight cooker...
...even hourly factory wages have risen faster than the cost of living. But such are the twin pressures on the Administration-which failed to face the inflation problem squarely in the early days of the war-that reasonable arguments have lost much of their force. The arguments now boil down to a simple demand: if "they" get something, "we" want something...