Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Billion Feast. At present, Hurley uses the new line only for the 3,500-h.p. Wright Turbo-Compound piston engine, which powers the Fairchild Packet, Lockheed Super Constellation and Douglas DC-7. But Hurley wants to use it for all Curtiss-Wright's new and secret family of jets and turboprops. There are two new Air Force turboprops, the T47 and T-49, under tight security wraps: both are reported to turn out more than 12,000 h.p. Curtiss-Wright is also testing a jet engine of great power called the J-67, which develops well over...
Letters from Home. Next day he called a press conference about the Communist go-slow campaign. "It is inhuman," said Sandhurst-educated General Thimayya in precise British accent. "As long as India is responsible, I cannot permit this to grow." Thimayya thought the explainers should get through a compound of 500 P.W.s a day or "forget about those who are not explained to." If the explanations stalled altogether, Thimayya implied, he would use his own troops to give the P.W.s a fair hearing...
...wrenched at his guards. "You lie, you lie!" he cried. "My mother and father are dead and so are my brothers. You killed them, and you too will die in filth! You are all Russian slaves." The Indian chairman told the guards to take the P.W. back to his compound-and eventual freedom. The P.W. left, still cursing: "Death to all Communist dogs...
...explainer spoke for 50 minutes of the terror in the compounds, the good food and friendship that awaited the P.W. at home, while a bunch of Communists chattered happily outside the tent in the belief they had got their man. The P.W. did not say a word. Then, when Indian guards relaxed their hold, the P.W. remarked, almost casually: "You are wasting your time." and threw himself at the explainer. The P.W. was taken back to his compound, shouting, "Communist son of a whore," but he was also laughing...
...acid in a chemical reaction that increases its corrosive properties. A good rain storm, Horse Cavers were told, could speed the tank leakage beyond hope of control. Already a heavy fog had carried hydrochloric-acid fumes half a mile away, where they killed a bean crop. Worse still, arsenic compound could seep through the famed Kentucky porous limestone into Hidden River, in the cave beneath the town, and contaminate the area's water supply...