Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tears. Her eyes searching to understand where she might be; kneeling and praying in the cruel tropic rain. She was turned toward a wall, now, but this room was black with late night shadows. Wall? What wall? She stretched out her hand, preparing to turn over, and felt surprise burn up her arm like electricity as she touched a thigh. Whose thigh...
...effort to meet the requirements. Given too short a lead time-to retool assembly lines normally takes about two years-the best antipollution device the engineers could come up with was the catalytic converter. Shaped like a standard muffler and attached to the exhaust system, the converter would completely burn hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide,* turning them into harmless water vapor and gas. Estimated cost to the consumer: at least...
First the gas workers walked out, cutting service to 4,000,000 homes. About 3,500 business firms, 1,700 schools and 400 hospitals were shut down-either because of lack of heat or because their own employees were also on strike. Some hospitals even had to burn their soiled bedsheets because their laundries were closed...
...floor. The increased fall from dead and dying trees has now piled up to depths of 12 in. to 18 in. in some areas; there, the ground is covered by as much as 50 tons of debris per acre. In strong winds on a hot day, the duff could burn so furiously that huge updrafts of air would be created as the fire sought oxygen to feed itself. In such an event, says Berkeley Forestry Professor Harold Biswell, "we might have a fire storm that would literally suck roofs off houses...
...told the unions would object, or insurance could not be had to cover the risk at his age; he was even too old to join a trade school carpentry class. Instead, he was directed to a hobby shop where, rather than build furniture, he could learn to burn homilies into pieces of wood...