Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chess game, De Koff also points out, was ever half so athletic. Crouched like a coiled spring, continually alert to lunge or parry, the fencer can feel tension spreading from his toes to his fingertips. And in the heat of combat, the new gentility sometimes wears thin. Given half a chance, a saberman (who can score points with a thrust or slice anywhere above his opponent's waist) may cut loose and whip his man across the back with a bruising blade. Even a city-bred college boy is seldom happier than on that rare occasion when his button...
...bomb, of unusually low energy yield because of the unusually high hazard, was buried in the earth at an undisclosed depth. When it exploded, it gave little light, heat or blast, but it raised into the air a many-fingered fountain of dirt or shattered rock. Most of this material was so heavy that it fell back immediately, spreading radioactivity for a considerable distance. A radioactive dust cloud hung in the air for 3½ hours, but did not move far from the crater...
...recapture lost passenger business and put it on a paying basis. ¶The Pennsylvania ordered a low-slung, lightweight stainless-steel train from the Budd Co. that will cost "somewhat over $1,000,000" and will have a capacity of 574 passengers. A separate power car will provide heat, light, and airconditioning for the seven tubular coaches. With coaches 2 ft. lower than present models, the train will take curves faster, cut running time between Washington and New York by 15%. Delivery: early...
Self-Lighting Grill. An outdoor cooking grill with an electric coil that will light the fire has been put on sale by Manhattan's Kamkap, Inc. The coil, buried at the bottom of the grill, will light charcoal, have it at broiling heat in less than two minutes. Price: $19.98-$100 Revolving Credit. Boston's First National Bank has started a new-type personal loan based on the revolving credit fund used by business. The bank extends credit to a borrower based on how much he can pay back each month for a year, lets him write checks...
...Harold Berry, Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering and an authority in the field of heat engineering, will retire at the end of the term...