Word: burnt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expected to see more burnt-out gas stations...
...that power puts intense strain on the hardware. (One crew sells souvenirs: "Burnt pistons, $10.") Surviving the succession of runs needed to win a four-day event requires ingenuity on the fly. Driver and crew get as little as 75 min. between races to strip down a devastated dragster and make it run faster than it did before...
Academics aside, people who call themselves "feminist" include the anti-pornography activists--who come off as being anti-sex, anti-men and anti-First Amendment--and the burnt-out institutions of what used to be the "women's movement...
...apparent rupture in the strong rocket casing--whether at a seam or elsewhere--had the effect of pointing a torch at the side of Challenger's fuel tank. The theory is that the flame either burnt through the tank or a "destruct package," causing the explosion, or raised the tank pressure to intolerable limits with the same result...
Nowhere does the piece better convey Eliot's sinister vision of his own past than in "Burnt Norton." It initially describes Eliot's childhood memory of being caught in a forbidden garden. Sullivan here downplays an implied reference to the garden of Eden, favoring the psychological rather than the spiritual ramifications of the trespass...