Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year later, with an investigation pending. Burgess and Maclean danced out of Britain a step ahead of the British police. Rumors persisted that the pair had been warned by a government official that the heat was on, and in 1955 a Labor M.P. rose in the House of Commons to accuse Philby of being the tipster. Admitting that Philby had been asked to resign from the Foreign Office because of his friendship with Burgess, Harold Macmillan, then Foreign Secretary, otherwise completely cleared him of any charge of treason or of being the "socalled 'third man,' if indeed there...
...Kaplan's answer is that moderate winds in the planet's thick, dense atmosphere can carry heat enough to keep the dark side warm. The hydrocarbon clouds, 15 miles thick, help by providing the surface with efficient insulation...
Then comes the crisis of launching. For a few violent minutes, the spacecraft, folded into the nose of its boost vehicle, must withstand an enormous increase of gravity due to acceleration. It is shaken by fierce vibration as heat sears through the shroud that protects it from racing air. Many spacecraft have died during launch, just as human babies sometimes die during delivery...
...Heat Balance. Once Mariner was safely on its way, Physicist Pickering and his JPL teammates watched over their creation like anxious parents. There was so much that could go wrong. Materials that are well behaved in the atmosphere may be useless in space. Even some metals turn to vapor and must be used with caution. Another peril is heat. Space itself has no temperature (having no matter that can be hot or cold), but each object in space assumes a temperature that depends on the balance between the radiation that it absorbs and the radiation that it emits...
...splashing safflower oil in all directions. But the major measure of America's continuing fitness fixation is an item small enough to fit in any purse or pocket that costs only $1, yet has floors creaking under the weight of leaping 200-pounders, bedroom windows steaming with the heat of executive pushups, and dogs barking excitedly at the sight of whole families doing leg-overs, toe-touches, and rocking situps...