Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the tropical heat, the Zinacantecos drink little water while working. If the men found small purple flowers growing, they might pick one and suck its bitter stem. The juice of the flower helps to allay thirst. But otherwise, the walapoho suffers the fate of any other weed, tumbled over by the hoes into the black earth. Work ended around four in the afternoon: water had to be hauled, and the mules taken care of. One of the men might go hunting with an old muzzle-loading shotgun while others looked for mushrooms...
...test the oilman's dream of using nuclear heat and shock to bring inaccessible oil deposits to the surface...
...cartridge can best be described in this way: It is a device which (ideally) travels through a record's grooves without too much heat and friction, gauges the intricacies of that groove and reports its findings in the form of electrical impulses to the amphlifier, being ever careful not to falsify its observations...
...difficulty in using the deuterium-fueled fusion process is that it requires temperatures as hot as those on the surface of the sun. Physicists can only sustain these by suspending the materials in a network of magnetic waves, since any other container would draw off heat too rapidly...
...shepherds warned Arabian American Oil Co. Geologist Thomas C. Barger when he began to explore the waterless wastes of Saudi Arabia's Rub Al Khali in 1938. But for four years Tom Barger tramped for oil and mapped Rub Al Khali's shifting sands in 130° heat, making lifelong friends of sheiks and shepherds, princes and kings. Mastering Arabic, he began to handle Aramco's negotiations with King Ibn Saud's government, was named an Aramco vice president in 1958, president in 1959. Last week in Dhahran, smiling, sinewy...