Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sprinted wildly down the street. The police found him only half an hour later, hiding on a nearby roof. He confessed, ratted on his pal Green and cried dramatically: "If you've got me, give it to me. I don't care if I burn anyhow." The cops, who had listened to Hopkins' sobbing wife and brokenhearted mother, set out to do their best to accommodate...
Inspired by the anti-Protestant pronouncements of leaders like Bishop Miguel Angelo Builes of Santa Rosa de Osos, village priests and police officers became more aggressive. Working on popular religious and anti-foreign prejudices, the Evangelical Confederation charges, they have incited mobs to stone or burn Protestant churches...
...baseball scout, the ideal pitcher is a rangy, muscular six-footer who can rear back and burn the ball across the plate all afternoon. Such a man was Lefty ("Old Mose") Grove (6 ft. 1½in., 170 Ibs.), the pitcher who in 1931 won 31 games (four losses) for the Philadelphia Athletics. When the Athletics' Scout Ira Thomas, still in search of a new-day Grove, took a look at stocky (5 ft. 7 in., 143 Ibs.) Bobby Shantz, he echoed other scouting reports on the little lefthander: "The general opinion is that Shantz is too small...
...process is quite simple. The catalytic units are arranged in layers in the chimneys, and each unit has 73 porcelain rods coated with a thin film (only .003 inch) of alumina and platinum alloy. This coating is the catalyst, which combines with oxygen in the atmosphere to burn up noxious wastes, and in so doing generates still greater heat...
...potential uses, Houdry thinks that his new catalytic process can clear the industrial smog from U.S. cities, enable notorious offenders (e.g., New York City's Consolidated Edison Co., which generates electricity from coal) to make immense savings in fuel. Moreover, the oil industry, which has to burn oil to generate the heat needed to refine petroleum, also can make big savings. Houdry estimates that a petroleum cat-cracking unit could save $320,000 a year in fuel by installing 12,000 of his units. Joseph N. Pew's Sun Oil Co., one of Houdry's original partners...