Word: burn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Richard (Mickey Rooney), a sensitive high-school senior who reads such radical thinkers as Shaw, Wilde and Ibsen. After innocently quoting a few of Swinburne's riper lines in a letter to his best girl, Richard is forbidden to see her again. Heartbroken, he vows to burn himself out in wild debauchery, settles for two sloe-gin fizzes with a local café dancer (Marilyn Maxwell...
Even the Nicaraguan peons knew that something was stirring. The tipoff: a drastic drop in planting during the current rainy season. Small farmers, sure that in the event of war troops would burn their fields, had planted just enough for their...
...Engine. All this is not as simple as it sounds. A small, controlled reactor has been built (TIME, Sept. 8), but putting one into a jet engine involves tremendous difficulties. The reactor must run very hot, but not burn itself out. It must transfer enormous amounts of heat to the "working fluid" (air) without slowing the blast too much...
...reassuring, too. There is no reason to worry about atomic bombs making men & women sterile, they said: a dose that would sterilize would be enough to kill. Anyhow, most damage from atomic bombs comes not from some mysterious ray but from ordinary blast (like high-explosive bombs) and burns (like fire-bombs). An enemy would probably blast and burn, rather than make whole cities radioactive. It would be "inconvenient" to evacuate parts of cities, but Geiger countermen would be around to spot safe areas...
...better to marry than to burn...