Word: boils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What it seemed to boil down to was fear of what the landlord, the butcher, the baker-the other fellow-was going to do. Maybe everybody would now try to make a killing. And then again, maybe he wouldn't. The U.S. people, at bottom, have a great deal of common sense. Now they would be called upon...
...suspected his wife, Corinne, of being unfaithful to him while he was away in the Pacific. But when he came back to San Francisco on the morning of V-J day and found that Corinne was not at home, years of suppressed doubt and jealousy burst like a boil. When at last Mark discovered Corinne at a chichi cocktail party, her touchy manner made him furious. "I missed you," she insisted. "You know that. [But] you've got to give me a chance to get used...
...professors and assorted experts. Says McGovern: "It was right hard to get those highbrows to part with their beloved footnotes." Even abridged, the average volume was still too long to please King, Leahy or Marshall. On learning that it was 900-odd pages, they would shudder: "Oh my God! Boil it down to three or four...
...even while Indian leaders were condemning the mutiny and riots, there were threats of further violence. Simmering India might soon boil again...
...great atom-smasher, the cyclotron, is used to shoot high-velocity particles at atoms. The betatron shoots pure energy in the form of X rays. When the X rays hit the nucleus of an atom, they act something like a red-hot poker thrust into a glass of almost-boiling water. The added energy entering the nucleus causes some of its particles to "boil off" like steam. To celebrate their triumph, the G.E. scientists were already busy last week building more & more powerful smashers...