Word: burned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gurney could not hope to match Jones for pure speed. But they hoped to keep within striking distance by boring through the turns at 140 m.p.h., pick up precious seconds by making only one pit stop for gas and tires. Jones's heavier Offy, they figured, would burn fuel and rubber faster, probably need three visits to the pits...
...continuous sheet of electrosensitive paper at a speed of 483 ft. per minute. The paper is drawn under a stationary set of 600 tiny needles-or styli-that are arranged in a 10-in. row. The computer standing near by sends electronic impulses to various styli, which then swiftly "burn" the characters into the sensitive paper...
...uses; man also employs the gases to fire rockets, sterilize rooms, freeze ice cream and produce soda bubbles. Food processors use liquid hydrogen to stiffen oils into shortening through "hydrogenation." Steelmakers are taking big gulps of pure oxygen in their furnaces to speed melting. In orbital flights, the astronauts burn liquid oxygen as fuel and breathe its evaporations...
...freighters have an average 49 crewmen each, while similar ships under other flags use only 37.* Argentina's depressed auto manufacturers, producing at scarcely 30% of capacity, are desperately trying to thin their ranks; but when Kaiser tried to do so, workers seized the plant and threatened to burn it along with management hostages trapped inside. Peru's Lima-Callao tramcar company, which recently pulled out of bankruptcy, is not permitted by the unions to fire anyone, although it has four workers for every real...
...makes himself the arbiter of other people's lives?" he pleads-but the chorus gives him no answer. The children's innocent voices haunt him. The adult chorus damns him: "Cursed be the shepherd who leads his flock to death," the people cry, and they burn his books, stone his palace, cast his ring into the sea. Then the blinding answer comes in a climactic sweep of music: death's enriching lesson comes only to those who have suffered the pain of their conscience...