Word: heated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sleeping in his sickroom, Chiang Ch'ing would yell at him, brandishing documents under his nose. Then she made her first attempt with an improbable blunt instrument. This was a high-wattage lamp that she cunningly placed on Mao's bedside table. Though "in dread of heat," he survived. Then Chiang Ch'ing, her Maocidal mania unabated, burst last September into her husband's sickroom. Taking advantage of the chief doctor's absence, Chiang Ch'ing insisted that Mao be rolled over in bed. That did it. Some 18 hours later, having taken Chiang...
During the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo, Virginia's Fairfax County school board decided to build an innovative, energy-saving school. Blueprints called for a partly solar-powered building, buried underground so that the heat generated by students, lights and machinery would not escape. When the board took its plan to the federal Energy Research and Development Administration in search of a grant, it got nowhere. Then, a Washington consultant for Saudi Arabia, who had read about the school, asked the board if it would be interested in a "private" investment. It was, and a $700,000 grant from...
More industrialized and energy-dependent than other areas, the Middle Atlantic states from New York south worried about the potential impact of continued cold and dwindling fuel supplies. So far, so good-relatively speaking. Buried under record snowfalls, northern New York did close schools heated by gas. Residents of the Buffalo area were asked to set thermostats at a shivering 55°. Two General Motors plants near Buffalo and a Bethlehem Steel factory near Lackawanna closed their doors. But much-maligned Con Edison, which lights up most of the New York megalopolis, had its day in the cold. The giant...
...cold to risk a long walk home from a party, crawled into a Laundromat's king-sized clothes dryer-still cozy and warm from the day's tumbling -and slept the night through. Fortunately, no early arrival slammed the door or turned on the heat...
...Drawn from deep deposits in Texas, Louisiana and a dozen other states, the gas is distributed to customers across the nation through a vast underground pipeline network that is 649,000 miles long and is operated by 141 major transmission companies. The fuel they supply is the source of heat for half the nation's homes and provides 40% of the energy used by industry...