Word: boils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general, businessmen found the reports reassuring, but they well knew that a high boil of production would be necessary to maintain earnings in the face of abnormally increased unit labor costs. The bad news (strikes and reconversion troubles) seemed-repeat seemed-to be a thing of the past. The big companies had enough war-accumulated reserves and tax credits this year to keep them on their feet. And when the basic industries got back to full production, other industries would be able to get the materials they needed to increase their own production...
...heat was turned up under the simmering political pots in New York and they began to boil. The machine-run nominating conventions were only a couple of weeks off. It was getting closer to the time when top politicos would have to pick their men, pass the word to the rank-&-file...
...nova-like flare-up of the sun might happen tomorrow." If it did, the sunny side of the earth would be burned to a crisp in half an hour, the oceans would boil away in live steam. Within a few days the world would be vapor...
...melodrama to which Mr. Steele's plots boil up & down there is scarcely a credible instant. His characters really have nothing to say except, with one accord, "Mr. Steele is making us up." This is an old-fashioned kind of mediocrity. The new-fashioned kind, reportorial and unplotted, has been so done to death that readers might like these tales for a change. Or they might like Conrad and Maugham...
Despite this light disclaimer (written on April Fool's Day), Lincoln appears to have begun the affair at a full, rolling boil-declaring that he would "catch, tie and marry" the lady. She was 30, he 29 and a member of the Illinois legislature. For about 18 months he continued at a simmer-traipsing over to see her at her sister's house, begging her to "say something that will please me, for really I have not been pleased since I left you." But he ended the affair tepidly with a negative proposal...