Word: burned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spaceship" told the world more about Russia than Nikita had bargained on. In fact, his satellite was no more a spaceship than the previous Soviet satellite had been "an automatic interplanetary station." By the Russians' own admission, when the time came for the spaceship to descend, it would "burn up in the denser layers of the atmosphere" -a journey's end scarcely calculated to appeal to live astronauts...
Many an airline passenger has tensed uneasily as lightning streaked the sky and the eerie blue glow of static electricity outlined the wing tips and propellers. Yet airmen have considered static electricity aloft relatively harmless. Now and then, lightning may blow out radio equipment or burn small holes in aircraft skin sections, but there are no recorded cases of major damage. Discharge of static electricity, named St. Elmo's fire by mariners of the Middle Ages, who thought the phenomenon a good omen from their patron saint, is considered no danger at all. When a plane flies through stormy...
...says Graves, some mushrooms went by the nickname of "little foxes." This sets the stage for one of his brazenly assured and highly speculative exegeses of Biblical texts. It is highly unlikely, argues Graves, that Samson caught 300 real foxes, set their tails afire and turned them loose to burn the cornfields of the Philistines. What he probably did was to arm 300 soldiers with flaming torches and inflame the men with the mushroom wonder drug. When the lovely Shulamite in The Song of Solomon cries "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines; for our vines...
...woman," but husbands must satisfy the desires of their wives and vice versa. Divorce he forbade -even of an unbelieving partner. Widows and the unmarried would do well to "abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn...
...much more than anticipated that the firm is not yet near breaking even. Douglas also had to redesign parts of the DC-8 after the plane failed to meet its initial guarantees (Douglas' explanation: the DC-8 will go as fast as claimed-550 m.p.h.-but has to burn too much fuel to do so). Losses on the DC-8 contributed heavily to a net loss of nearly $34 million reported by the company for the year ending in November...