Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Heating Up. The surge in par busting may be partly due to improvements in the tools of the trade: the whippy steel and fiber glass shafts of today's golf clubs, high-compression golf balls, the portable warmers used to heat up the balls so they will travel farther. But there is a growing school of thought which holds that the real reason for all the sub-par golf is sub-par golf courses...
Romero looks at the Argentine political game with the eyes of an old player who has been put in the penalty box for eternity. He feels the heat of the competition and the flush of frustration, but he can do no more than give a running commentary on the progress of play...
Bunker shot bison in the jungles of Mysore for relaxation. As for his ability to withstand Viet Nam's heat, Bunker, who seems to take his own temperate zone wherever he goes, regularly worked 20-hour days in steaming Santo Domingo without losing his starch...
...defense perimeter extending out to the range of a rocket (five miles) or even of a mortar (3.5 miles). Furthermore, a flak vest-the only real protection against mortar fragments, short of a deep trench-is an intolerable burden for U.S. troops in Viet Nam's stifling heat...
Benjamin Thompson, on the other hand, became Lord Rumford (the name was derived from Rumford, N.H., which later became the city of Concord) who did significant work in the field of heat and the caloric theory. This derived from his experiences in the armory of Bavaria where he noted that the boring of cannons in water raised the temperature of the water...