Word: burningly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airborne missiles can be launched 1,000 nautical miles away from their targets; the two-stage missile's Aerojet engines burn solid fuel, and not much of it. When Skybolt is fired, it already has the respectable forward speed of 600 m.p.h., and most of the atmosphere is already far below. With little fuss, by land-launched rocket standards, it climbs into the vacuum of space and arches...
...Burn, Witch, Burn (American-International) confirms some horrible undergraduate suspicions about faculty wives. It seems they really do put toads...
...does very well indeed. Before the first reel runs out, he seems certain to become chairman of the sociology department. At that point, unfortunately for him, the scientific snob discovers what his wife has been up to, and with self-righteous rationality he destroys her "protections." They burn with a sinister light...
...polarized in the same direction, and all traveling in phase in almost perfectly parallel beams. Such light can be focused so sharply that its energy is concentrated on a tiny spot, and laser experimenters love to show how an in stantaneous flash of their innocent-looking red light can burn a hole in a thin sheet of steel...
With Evtushenko, it looks forward to a time when "Posterity will remember/And will burn with shame/ Remembering these strange days/ When common honesty was called courage." The crowds who turn out to hear the poets' work are a hopeful portent. When citizens are allowed to judge literature for themselves, when the highest officials wrangle publicly over the fundamental rights and aims of creative artists, they are engaged in the closest thing to a democratic debate that Soviet history has seen. The depth of public response to the new "literature of truth" is itself the strongest deterrent to the party...