Word: burned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thyroid gland is lax, my metabolism too slow to burn up actually normal rations of food...
...death of Wallace, all reasonable Scotsmen saw the death of Scotland. But they were wrong. They reckoned without a thoroughly unreasonable Scotsman named Robert the Bruce, a 31-year-old firebrand with energy to burn, military and political genius to fan the flames, and a hereditary claim to the throne of Scone that set the firths on fire. In a quarter-century of ferocious fighting he drove the English out of Scotland, broke his domestic enemies in a bloody civil war, founded a dynasty that endured for four centuries, and bequeathed to his countrymen their national epic...
...church. Crowned King at Scone, he promptly sent to warn England's Edward I that "he would defend himself with the longest stick he had." Edward, the master of a nation six times the size of tiny (pop. 400,000) Scotland, disdainfully instructed his legate in Scotland to "burn and slay and raise dragon" in the land. On June 19, at Methven field, the English scattered the rebel forces with great slaughter. King Robert's wife, daughter and sister were captured-in the spirit of fair prey, the English shut his sister up in a cage and hung...
Hardly anybody noticed the word "nonlethal." Compared with napalm bombs that incinerate whole villages, or white phosphorous shells that burn a man to the bone, the temporarily disabling gases used in Viet Nam seem more humane than horrible. But the words "gas warfare" and "experimenting" stirred macabre memories. There was the afternoon of April 22, 1915, when German infantrymen gave the world its first whiff of poison-gas warfare by sending a huge, grey-green cloud of noxious chlorine rolling over two French divisions in the trenches at Ypres, killing 5,000, incapacitating 10,000, and cutting a 31-mile...
...track, injuring two spectators, and a French Abarth-Simca piled head-on into a palm tree. But Hall's only problem was Dan Gurney, the "rabbit" of the Ford team, whose job was to battle the Texan for the early lead, try to make him burn out his engine. Hall gave better than he got: gunning his Chaparral round the course at 104 m.p.h., he smashed the track record by a fantastic 3.5 m.p.h.-and it was Gurney who broke down, trying to keep...