Word: burned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coal industry-contrary to popular opinion-is not about to burn out. Soft coal's outlook, in fact, has brightened so much that the U.S. Bureau of Mines says production will be up to 671 million tons by 1975 (v. 406 million last year). The big coal-mining companies are turning such solid profits that many sharp-eyed Wall Street investors have pegged them as growth companies and have begun to push their stock prices...
...View of the Spree, by Alson J. Smith. It seems that Kaiser Wilhelm had an American mistress, who, despite her Calvinist morality (she made him burn his collection of dirty pictures), became an ardent German nationalist. The author, her grandnephew, has set down a fascinating history, although he has failed to establish (as he believes) that Auntie was a major cause of World...
...iron rule grew tighter. Resistance among Roman Catholics, among middle-class professional people, among the military stiffened against him. Per&243;n sent mobs of his descamisados to burn the high-toned Jockey Club, the Radical and Socialist Party headquarters, nine Roman Catholic churches. Fed up at last, the military rose against him in September 1955. When it seemed that a navy cruiser might fire on Buenos Aires, he fled aboard a Paraguayan gunboat...
Hypergolic Ignition. Besides being storable, Titan II's fuels are "hypergolic." This fancy word, too newly coined to be included in most dictionaries, means that the two liquids start burning furiously as soon as they come in contact. No igniting system is needed, and this advantage eliminates a missile designer's nightmare. Kerosene and lox, the commonest missile fuels, do not ignite on contact; furthermore, if they do not burn promptly, they form a powerful explosive mixture that can blow a missile to shreds...
...seems that Kaiser Wilhelm had an American mistress, who, despite her Calvinist morality (she made him burn his collection of dirty pictures), became an ardent German nationalist. The author, her grandnephew, has set down a fascinating history, although he has failed to establish, as he believes, that Auntie was a major cause of World...