Word: boiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When these assorted bits were assembled with the Smuts version, the total made no sense. At that point Poet Archibald MacLeish, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, returned to San Francisco and was assigned the redrafting job. He tried to boil the whole thing down to 100 words, but the coordinating committee threw his version out. It was too literary...
...gravity, they proposed to build a platform for launching rockets into interstellar space and for harnessing the sun's heat. By use of a huge reflector, like a burning mirror, they calculated that enough heat could be focused on a chosen area to make an ocean boil or to burn up a city in a flash. Their sun gun could also be used, they pointed out, to produce steam and electric power at global receiving stations...
...Senate's Agriculture Committee this week began to dig to the bottom of the food muddle (see INTERNATIONAL). It had a big job on its hands. In all of vast bureaucratic Washington, everyone could put a finger on someone to blame. All this seemed to boil down to one main fact: there was no top control of the U.S. food supply or its allocation...
Greer Garson let her temper simmer to a slow boil when a Hollywood stocking manufacturer claimed that she was bowlegged, had to wear padded stockings. Green-eyed, Oscar-winning Cinemactress Garson said that the only picture in which she showed her legs full-length was Random Harvest, insisted: "Those were my own legs . . . there were no complaints from the paying customers...
...after 4 o'clock by the time the infantry nears the top. The first sign of the charge is the flashing of bayonets in the Japanese wire and then from the trees below the crest Chinese soldiers boil up on all sides. It is a terrifying sight...