Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drawer officials, ranging from a big collective-farm chairman to the boss of all Soviet farming, Acting Minister of Agriculture Vladimir Matskevich, 45, a suave, shaven-headed Ukrainian henchman of Communist Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev. Under the influence of Iowa's warm welcome and 90° heat, they quickly melted, shed their dark jackets, switched to shirtsleeves, straw hats and smiles. When someone complained about the heat, Matskevich stole Iowa's favorite reply: "Yes, but it's very good for the corn...
...reported to be working hard on this radical device, but the only fusion reaction demonstrated so far is an uncontrolled one: the hydrogen bomb. In the bomb, light elements (isotopes of hydrogen and probably lithium) are caused to join into helium by the intense heat of an exploding fission (uranium) bomb. Something more tractable is needed to start a fusion reaction in a peaceful power plant...
...Spot. The problem is a favorite one with nuclear inventors, and there have been many suggestions. Most of them use electrical methods for generating intense heat in very small amounts of material. A beam of electrons from a linear accelerator, for instance, carries a good deal of energy. If it is focused on a small spot, perhaps one-thousandth of a millimeter in diameter, it will raise the temperature of that spot to many million degrees...
...known material can stand such heat, but if the material struck by the electrons is lithium-six deuteride,* it will (so say the rumors) turn into helium, giving off a vast amount of energy...
...friend to extract a musical tone from each plaque on his tower (by banging or rubbing each one separately) and record the sounds together on tape. Then he persuaded an engineer to build an electronic "brain" for the tower which "plays" the tones according to the effects of light, heat, humidity and surrounding noises. The result sounds rather like a Balinese gamelan: a succession of groans, bongings, sighs and muted tinkles. "This piece of sculpture," says Schoffer, "aside from its purely visual role, becomes the source of an emission of sonorous background directed towards the city...