Word: hardening
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...CONTINUOUS CASTING. The idea is so obvious that Bessemer filed a patent on it 101 years ago, but complex production bugs stymied its use until recently. The ordinary method of casting is to pour the metal into ingot molds to harden, strip away the mold, reheat the ingot and roll it into semifinished shapes. Continuous casting eliminates these cumbersome steps. A ladle atop a tower pours white-hot steel into a 2-to-4-ft-deep oscillatfhg copper-lined mold. As the mold bottom is withdrawn, an unbroken billet of barely crusted steel creeps down through cooling water sprays...
...soothe her, Segal played Vivaldi on the phonograph. "It was awful," she recalls. "After I got encased and began to harden, I couldn't feel my foot. It was numb. Then I couldn't move my hand. I began to itch. I knew this was an important piece, but all along I kept thinking, To hell with posterity...
...verdict: guilty of voluntary manslaughter. The judge went along with the jury's recommendation for a six-year sentence. Next day Willie, whose only apparent crime was getting in the way of Harden's club, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and received a six-year sentence also...
...Negro defense attorney, C. B. King, engineered the jury's composition by using 19 of his 20 challenges to eliminate white candidates. He contended that Defendant Charlie Hunter, 15, had committed justifiable homicide last November when he shot John Harden, an Ellaville cop who had arrested Charlie and his brother Willie, 19, for speeding. Charlie testified that Harden had been beating his brother with a club and was about to shoot Willie...
...Honduras when he was 18, decided last spring that he had to reach his own decisions about the war, the world and Dwight Hall Owen Jr. "I wanted to see the world while I'm still young and impressionable," he explains, "before prejudices have a chance to harden. I wanted to be on my own completely, for once in my life, and-I don't know-I guess I wanted to prove a kid could still...