Word: broil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spacious kitchens, designed as a single unit, will be equipped with pedals to control tap water, mechanical dishwasher sterilizers, vertical broilers (to broil steaks on both sides simultaneously...
...which sings, and a bird whose six-noted whistle sounds like "Did he do it?" Pause. "No, oh." U.S. pursuit pilots shot down by daring Japanese Zeroes found themselves parachuting into a leech-infested jungle so thick the earth never feels sunshine-hard, though the sun may try to broil its way through. Incidentally, the percentage of shot-down pilots who managed to find their way back through the jungles is phenomenally high. They often must swim down rivers to the sea, risking crocodiles. If shot down over the sea they risk being eaten by sharks 30 feet long...
Modern language concentrators have been surprised and pained to find that in spite of the trying twelve-week summer session they must soon broil through, they are apparently expected to take the September Bible-Shakespeare-Ancient Authors examination, which is based on summer reading. This examination could be given in all justice in the past, when to most students summer was a glorious period of loafing, with plenty of time for casual study. Now this September examination is an anachronism, a pointless holdover which should be eliminated in view of the new accelerated summer program...
...excitement of active combat, no military ends, no instinct to destroy the enemy urged them as they grubbed 27 feet into the wet, sandy soil. They were in constant expectation of a blinding, icy flash of death. As they dug, a gas main caught fire and began to broil the bomb. Twice on the way up the bomb slipped its tackles and fell to the bottom of the hole...
...Schuylers now broil their meat lightly, instead of eating the raw, bloody, buttered beef and liver they used to.) Her parents were not surprised at Philippa's precocity, which began when she crawled 18 inches at the age of a month, read, wrote her name, spelled 150 long words at two. At four she could, and persistently did, spell pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico-volcanoniosis.* A pianist since she was a little over three, Philippa Schuyler has repeatedly won prizes in tournaments of the National Guild of Piano Teachers, and in competitions of young listeners to the New York Philharmonic-Symphony...