Word: burningly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Responsible Parenthood." From the time of St. Paul, who said, "It is better to marry than to burn" (meaning, with passion), Catholic teaching on marriage has implied that sexual pleasure was a reward that God gave to married couples for producing children. The canon law of the church describes the primary end of marriage as the procreation and education of children; the mutual love of husband and wife and what the code grimly refers to as "the allaying of concupiscence" are essential but secondary ends. Many a priest still preaches that a house-cramming brood is the goal...
...President had uttered stern words that might indeed burn for a time in labor's ears. But the fact was that in November, U.S. labor leaders will have little choice but to fall in behind him. Raymond Fahey, president of the International Union of Operating Engineers' Buffalo local, summed it up: "When the time comes, we'll go out and do everything we can for Johnson...
...corner. I don't believe that we are going to make the Treasury over by cutting out a few automobiles or turning out a few lights. But I do think it is a good example when you walk through the corridor and you see the closets where lights burn all day and all night just because someone didn't turn them off." He spoke of the need to take a fresh view of U.S. relations with recalcitrant allies: "People feel that all we need to do is mash a button and determine everybody's foreign policy...
...Douala, shop and office windows are festooned with signs reading "No help needed." Secondary-school graduates are willing to work three months without pay for a chance at a job. Young men as diligent as that will eventually get ahead-even if they have to storm the presidential palace, burn a minister's Mercedes or join the Union des Populations Camerounaises-a rebel group that has conducted the longest, bloodiest rebellion in Africa, a seven-year war that has cost 50,000 lives...
...substance that inspired the word is a peculiar and promising product called Teflon, a slippery white plastic that feels something like a wet bar of soap.* Discovered in 1938 almost accidentally by Du Pont scientists who were working on fluorocarbon refrigerants, Teflon has other valuable properties: it will burn only when directly exposed to flame, is a superior electrical insulator and resists tears and impact...