Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...furled-umbrella stuffiness has long been the norm. He works in an open-necked shirt, often sniffing or fondling a flower on his desk. His Cabinet meetings are as intellectually demanding as his University of Montreal law classes used to be, and during last summer's 90° heat they sometimes ran for more than six hours. One result is that in two months he has set in motion the most sweeping overhaul of Canada's government machinery since...
Peter Kiger, 29, who served at the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo., kept demanding that guards turn on the steam heat in the room of an elderly Negro patient in the psychotic ward. He claims that they not only refused, but retaliated by forcing him to spend a few days-naked -in a chilly cubicle with a stone floor, known as "the hole." When New Yorker Sullivan was ordered to increase his work output one day, he turned to his foreman and said: "I quit." He spent two weeks in solitary...
Nitinol's habit of springing back to its original shape when heat is applied also suggests to scientists that it can be used to convert heat energy to mechanical energy. Thus, say Buehler and Wang, it could be used in fire-extinguisher activators and circuit breakers. "The beauty of Nitinol," says Buehler, "is that it's something you load ahead of time. Then if you put it in the correct temperature range, it pulls the trigger itself...
...have been 15 miles above the planet's surface. The capsule, Kliore and Cain speculate, may have landed on a Venusian mountain three times as high as Mount Everest. Or more likely, it may have gone dead while still floating down through the atmosphere-a victim of electronic heat prostration. To back up their temperature estimate, the JPL men also point out that U.S. radio astronomy measurements and data from Mariner 2, which bypassed Venus in 1962, indicate a Venusian surface temperature of at least...
...student mood as "discouraged." Princeton's Bob Powell, a leading candidate to succeed Schwartz, thought the word should be "rage." Conservatives professed to see students as "more significantly aware" this year, while radicals contended that the emerging feeling is one of "violence." At times, in the wilting heat of a livestock arena on the Kansas State campus, the delegates seemed to be contending with all four moods at once...