Word: cool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cool as a Cuba Libre, Hormel protested his innocence. The accusations, said he, were all a big misunderstanding. When the rented plane's owner heard that it had gone down in Cuba, he asked Hormel what had happened. Hormel denied ever making the flight. He was in Alabama at the time, he said; someone must have stolen the plane while his back was turned. It may be tough to prove. In Havana last week, the word was that Flyer Hormel had left his passport in the splashed plane-and that the U.S. Navy found the document when it towed...
...loose burros topped 300, Mayor Adolfo Santocchi decided to act. One day last week his men rounded up 20 burros, loaded them on a truck and drove away. Twelve miles out from town the burros were set down in a green valley, sheltered by hills and watered by a cool stream. In an address to the town by soundtruck, Mayor Santocchi explained that he had sought out the valley as a refuge-suitably distant-"where our plateritos can live happily and in peace." As his men began rounding up the rest of the strays, the mayor promised periodic inspections...
...night was cool and windless as the runners lined up in Dublin's new Santry Stadium. Besides Elliott and Ireland's Hero Delany, the field included New Zealand Schoolteacher Murray Halberg, two other Australians: Merv Lincoln and Albert Thomas, a stubby little (5 ft. 5 in.) clerk from Sydney...
...shock wave out front that cuts the velocity of the air actually hitting the nose to subsonic speed, then slows the missile to around 500 m.p.h. Instead of evaporating in more than 10,000° re-entry heat, as a sharp-nosed metal warhead might, it descends at a cool...
...nose of the type developed by the Army on its Jupiter IRBM. This one is more classically sharp. Instead of absorbing and avoiding heat, it removes heat by "ablation." Technique: coating the nose surface with materials that melt or vaporize while absorbing heat, yet leave the material underneath cool and undamaged. The best materials seem to be polymer plastics, mixed with fibers of glass...