Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...test in 1952. "Space is annihilated; time is measured in millionths of seconds; temperatures approach those at the center of the sun. There is an empty feeling in the pit of the stomach when out of the stillness a great ball of light plunges into vision . . . a rush of heat, like the opening of a furnace door." The witness was obsessed by the horror of the explosion he had seen, and as the months passed, he grew to believe that if all men could see it, they would strive to avoid it, and peace would result...
...mechanical bugs in a small gas turbine for cars have already been eliminated. Chrysler, for example, has been testing a gas-turbine car on Detroit streets for months. Nevertheless, engineers estimate that the mass-produced gas-turbine auto is still at least ten years away. One reason is that heat-resisting alloys needed for turbine engines are still far too short for mass production. But the biggest reason is the economics of the auto in dustry. The industry has to progress by evolution rather than revolution, since astronomical tooling costs must be written off over a long period of years...
...four boats got off to a good start and raced in a dead heat approaching the quarter-mile marker. Then Jordan's experienced crew begain to pull away. By the three-eights post, Jordan, the stroke of last year's once-defeated freshman heavy crew, had his boat ahead by a length and a quarter. Platt's boat led Zezza and the graduates, still even, by a quarter-length...
...slackly refusing to recognize the crisis until it was on them, by allowing its final moments to be played out in the heat of controversy and the glare of publicity, the royal family and the Eden government have put themselves in a position where they cannot win. If, at the last minute, they persuade Margaret to send Townsend away, they will be undemocratic bullies in the eyes of many. If they give even reluctant consent, they will offend many others...
...more years of Harvard men/ The ratio's one to ten"). Saville House sand "If someone would do pre-med with me/ I'd learn anatomy/ Harvard has the cure for you," while Whitman complained that Harvard men ". . . would rather go to Wheaten/ To find girls who put the heat...