Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with guns blazing over the copper-mining town of Kolwezi, 150 miles northwest of Elisabethville on Katanga's only rail line to the Atlantic Ocean. Within minutes, half a dozen railway locomotives and cars were out of action; then, with a roar, the town's main fuel tanks, filled with thousands of gallons of diesel oil, went up in a leaping column of flame and smoke. Near by was the village of Luilu, site of a big copper and cobalt refinery of Katanga's Union Minière du Haut-Katanga; there, a few rounds of cannon...
...midweek, the U.N. added up its "kills" so far: five Katangese planes destroyed on the ground, 39 trucks, three armored cars, one helicopter, two fuel dumps, and half a dozen railroad locomotives. Crying economic murder, Moise Tshombe accused the U.N. of planning Katanga's industrial destruction. "This day will be marked with a white stone by the capitalist bourgeoisie to mark the story of its decadence," he cried. U.N. officials retorted that they were striking at the industry and transport that might serve Tshombe's cause. But the question arose in many countries: Whatever the merits...
...papers and pundits were shocked by the sight of a world peacemaker waging aggressive war. Said the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., News: "To do as the U.N. is doing now in the name of peace is only adding more fuel to the fire which will eventually consume the U.N. and all it is supposed to represent.'' The New York Daily News suggested that the U.S. stop "bankrolling the U.N. Congo campaign" and leave "the Congo chiefs to settle their differences by means of the exhilarating tribal wars so dear to the hearts of most Congolese." The Tampa Tribune found...
...photon-photon collisions? Dr. Ward does not favor the suggestion that the lost energy turns into the radio waves that permeate space. He prefers the more startling notion that the energy is transformed, in some unexplained manner, into fresh, new hydrogen that provides an eternal source of nuclear fuel for the hydrogen-burning stars...
...Blow-by is Detroit's name for the unburned fuel vapors that escape from the cylinders of an internal combustion engine during the compression stroke. From the cylinders, the fuel enters the crankcase, where its hydrocarbon-rich fumes mingle with the vapors from hot engine oil, then slip out through a vent into the surrounding atmosphere...