Word: exhaustingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grandeur of his tasks, he finally produced the Spoils of War-a big and ugly one-man band strung up on a gallows and made from artillery shell casings, cloud-chamber bowls (from the Radiation Laboratories at Berkeley), a blow-boy (composed of bellows, a 1912-auto-exhaust horn and three organ pipes), a whang gun ("WHANG-OOOO," it hoots when struck), and a raspidor that sounds like mice scratching inside a wall...
...number 00, it was a jet-a British Rover-B.R.M. experimental gas turbine, competing for the special $5,000 prize offered to the first turbine car to average 150 k.p.h. (93.2 m.p.h.) for 24 hours. Its kerosene-fueled engine measured only 30 in. from air intake to exhaust, developed only 150 h.p. (45 h.p. less than a Chevy V-8), ran so quietly that it got a nickname: "The Silent Specter." It had only two gears, forward and reverse, and the "freewheeling" engine (turning between 30,000 and 70,000 r.p.m.) provided no slowing effect on corners, putting...
Auto engineers who dream of finding a replacement for the complicated, churning piston engine have long looked wistfully at the gas-turbine engine that introduced the jet age. The turbine-with its screeching siren noise, high fuel consumption, slow acceleration and searing exhaust gases-now dominates the jet field, but is still far out when it comes to autos. After 14 years of experimenting and several premature publicity outbursts on the subject, Chrysler Corp. is now confident that it has tamed the gas turbine...
...cylinder engine, gentle springs, and all the aerodynamic qualities of a two-by-four. But some expert rebuilding and the addition of an optional, high-performance V-8 Pontiac engine was all that Driver Paul Goldsmith, 36, himself an Indianapolis driver, needed to leave the Sting Rays in his exhaust...
...giant rockets designed to boost a man-carrying capsule to the moon will burn more than 2,000 tons of fuel, and a large part of their exhaust gases will be deposited more than 80 miles high, up where the air is only one-billionth as dense as at sea level. Once discharged at that altitude, the gases will not fall for weeks or months, and the air in which they will be floating is so thin that a small amount of contamination can have profound effects. Physicists Jerome Pressman, William Reidy and Winifred Tank of Geophysics Corp. of America...