Word: burningly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real good thing? WONK: What's the deal? TOWNIE: We can get half a pound of Sano for only seventy-five. WONK: Yow, where?! TOWNIE: You front me the bread and I'll go get it. WONK: Now wait a minute, how do I know you won't burn me? TOWNIE: Well, like, I can't bring you up there, because the cat I'm scoring from--he's, like, paranoid...
...customs require new, uncustomary terms. Folk singers in Washington, D.C., strum the strings of an ax. At Chicago a strong drinker is a long hitter; at the University of Texas those who can't hold it crash and burn under the table. A bag is an object, group or mood. I am in a pizza bag means "I want pizza." Where is the beard bag? means "Where are the beatniks...
...through it. The combination of chemicals releases active bromine in a form that attaches itself to the lignin in the pulp. Treating solid wood is a more complicated process, but the results are spectacular. When a piece of brominated wood is put in a hot fire, it does not burn. After a while, a layer of carbon forms on its surface, but carbonization stops as soon as the wood is taken out of the fire. Any structure of brominated wood or wood products is safe from fire unless it is stuffed with highly combustible contents. "We could fireproof Japan," says...
...prompting hundreds of irate letters from alumni, then-President Harold Willis Dodds refused to intervene. "We have sought to resolve this problem not in terms of academic freedom, but in the deeper terms of human freedom," he said. "To learn the personal significance of fire, the child must burn himself...
Like a summer sunburn from the beach, the victim of snow blindness may not feel it until several hours afterwards. The first indication will be a slight visual discomfort like a speck in the eye. This worsens until the eyes burn as though full of grains of sand, with accompanying frofuse flow of tears and swelling of the eyelids. The patient will dread the sight of bright light...