Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force prisoner stand, then in direct opposition to the Army's. A king-sized deadlock resulted, centering essentially on what a service should demand of its men-in other words, the ideology of duty. Air Force wished less, Army more, demands. There was name calling and heat. Obviously, one service could not have one standard, a second another. After months of inconclusive rough-and-tumble along these lines, an impatient Defense Department stepped in, appointing a high-ranking, ten-man, all-service committee to end the hassle...
...nation's serious unemployment problem worsened as farms and construction firms laid off tens of thousands of workers because of the cold. In Paris, the French Cabinet ordered that priority on coal deliveries be given to the aged. As Yugoslavian factories began to shut down for lack of heat, coal miners went back into the mines on Sunday. Rome's city water authority told consumers to leave their taps on at night to prevent them from freezing; in London, 1,600 frozen water mains burst. Maternity nurses in a London hospital hit by a power failure kept incubators...
...house yet?" The landlady told Dr. Cook to hang up so she could get the maid to call the fire department. Then she grabbed a hammer herself. She .broke a small pane in the door and reached in to release the latch. Intense heat blasted into her face. "It was just like opening the door to a furnace," she said...
...fingertip on-off control. It can turn up to 100,000 revolutions per minute and come to a dead stop in a fraction of a second. Its carbide burs will drill a neat hole or, if moved sideways, work like a power saw. The burs develop no heat as they drill or slice swiftly through bone...
Scientists may soon feel more certain of their new theories. Coleman reported that Mariner II's instruments, designed to measure heat and microwaves, also seemed to work perfectly during the flyby. Their findings will be reported next month...