Word: boiling
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McEnroe was warned about his conduct in the first set, but his dispute came to a boil in the third set, when he lost an argument over a line call and said in a loud voice: "You are a disgrace to mankind...
Ultimately, the contest is likely to boil down to the same question asked before last Monday's twin-bill: can the Harvard offense produce? Goaltending should not be the deciding factor, as both B.C.'s Bob O'Connor and Harvard's Wade Lau have performed strongly in recent weeks. On defense, the Eagles can rely on strong efforts from George Amidon and Jim Chisholm but they have blueliners out because of injuries, while for Harvard, it's a question of whether offense and defense can forecheck and backcheck together as a unit...
...legend. When the first U-2s were being built, Chief Designer Clarence ("Kelly") Johnson and his team worked overtime and got whatever they wanted. After he told his old pal Air Force General Jimmy Doolittle, then at the Shell Oil Co., that he needed a fuel that would not boil off at the low pressures of the upper atmosphere, Shell scientists produced a special low-boil, kerosene-type fuel just for Johnson's plane. Inevitably, it became known as Kelly's Lighter Fluid...
...salutation were constant in the letters. Ratliff's style never changed--a bare-bones prose that results, he says, from long hours of thinking before he puts pen to paper. "I read the news, and then I try to let it sift through my mental passages, so I can boil it down...People are not going to read long drawn-out writings," the University of Texas graduate says, adding that his models of clarity include Bertrand Russell, Leo Tolstoy and the King James Bible. All the letters are written early in the morning, "one, two, three, when the moonlight...
Before the war in the gulf began, my blood used to boil at the very mention of Ayatullah Khomeini. But today I cannot help sympathizing with the poor devil. His spectacular crusade captured the world's imagination, and it is a sorry spectacle to see such an industrious personality faltering before his adversary and heading toward inevitable disaster...