Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...camp." His possessions were what he had made himself or carried on his back from civilization. If he had had a cow, he had butchered her that winter to save his family from starving. He could count on a small squash and corn crop, if the Indians did not burn his fields, but the abundant game in the forests did him little good; his tiny supply of gunpowder was hoarded for fighting...
...served in less than a one-ounce container. But most drinkers have only their own instinct to provide protection. Says Joseph Amann, a Chicago bar-equipment dealer for the past 38 years: "A man has a built-in measure in his mouth. If a drink doesn't burn as much as it did before, he knows he's getting gypped...
...Johnston Island tests, 200 E.G. & G. technicians armed with $3,500,000 worth of equipment took 50,000 photographs of each of 26 explosions, shot some film at speeds of a billionth of a second. They, measured such phenomena as fireball temperatures, alpha, beta and gamma rays, eye-burn potential, and the blasts' effect on radio communication. Currently under a $25 million AEC contract, E.G. & G. is reckoning results, comparing them with earlier tests dating back to 1948, programming findings for AEC computers. Because it can handle such assignments, E.G. & G. is the AEC's highest paid instrumentation...
Weighing about 85,000 Ibs., the moon bound spacecraft will have three parts: the command module, housing the three-man crew; the service module, with supplies, engines and propellants; and the small landing bug. During the three-day voyage to the moon, the astronauts will make computations and burn fuel to correct their course. They will also take the bug out of the rear of the service module and attach it to the nose of the command module. After arriving in the vicinity of the moon, they will burn a little more fuel to nudge their ship into...
...first attempt to stir up resistance ended feebly. APRA, the leftist-turned-moderate party denied power in the June presidential elections, issued a call for a nationwide general strike that was to last until the presidency was restored. But Lima's electric lights continued to burn brightly, the buses rolled, most business went on as usual. Anti-APRA unions refused to honor the strike. More important, the generals in the palace were waging a shrewd, conciliatory campaign to win public acceptance...