Word: heat
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...axiomatic in medicine that if many different treatments for a single condition are listed in the textbooks, none of them can be much good. Dozens are listed for the pain and disability in muscles and joints that commonly result from everyday injuries. They include drugs, heat, cold, rest, exercise, etc. Lieut. Colonel Arthur E. Grant, chief of physical medicine at Brooke Army General Hospital in Texas, was aware of all the possibilities because he was responsible for thousands of G.I.s who kept getting themselves banged up. He wanted something more effective than traditional medicine...
Each of these Southern communities required the presence of federal troops to achieve a measure of educational integration. In each, the federal-state confrontation amounted to a constitutional crisis, seemed to pose grave questions about the basic workings of the Republic, fanned emotions to white heat...
Stainless is created by blending the high-grade steel with chromium carbides, which toughen it, make it resistant to rust, corrosion and great heat. Sweden's steelmakers cold-roll the stainless steel to 4/1,000 in., then grind, polish and cut it into blade-wide coils before shipping it to the blademakers, who stamp and sharpen the final blade. Stainless is also indispensable in making nuclear reactors, missiles, jet engines and supersonic plane wings, as well as surgical instruments and food-processing equipment...
...have a dream," he went on, relentlessly shouting down the thunderous swell of applause, "that even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with people's injustices, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice." Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. "I have a dream," cried King again, "that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character...
...Speedy Scot: the 38th Hambletonian for three-year-old trotters in a world's record combined time of 5:54 for three heats around the mile track; in simmery, 90° sunshine at the Du Quoin, Ill., State Fair Grounds. Despite his speed, the colt lost the first race by a head to Florlis, who set a one-heat record...