Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House President Eisenhower had the sniffles himself, and the chronic bursitis in his right shoulder was acting up enough to call for heat treatment at Walter Reed Hospital.* And when Butler's remarks reached him, his under-collar temperature shot up. Within a few hours Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty had passed the word to New Hampshire's Republican Senator Styles Bridges: Ike thought Butler's comment about Mamie was a political foul...
...Bell TRADIC (TRAnsistor-DIgital-Computer), developed for the Air Force, is intended for use on airplanes, taking over much of the electronic thinking now done by vacuum-tube equipment. Besides being small and light, it generates almost no heat, an important consideraion in the hot, cramped innards of a modern jet plane...
...believer in the inevitable superiority of college graduates, Treasurer Kennedy forthwith appointed his brother, James A. (for Austin) Kennedy, to the $5,780-a-year post of third deputy treasurer. But the Governor's Council unanimously refused to approve brother Jim, a steel heat treater at the Boston Navy Yard who left school...
Almost as soon as Father Roget reaches Indo-China as a French army chaplain, his religious certainties begin to waver. Riding through the crushing heat of the jungle to a front-line outpost, he passes a ruined pagoda, and is horrified by his sudden vision of his own God "dying in the grasp of the foul, green fungus, speckled with the disease of decay." At the front Colonel Lejeune, a magnificent soldier, tells him with cold insolence that he would have preferred reinforcements to a priest. The French are corroded by defeatism, many of the soldiers are themselves Communists...
...bomb's three threats to human life (heat, blast and gamma rays), the heat radiation reaches farthest with full killing effect. Its rays, however, cannot penetrate opaque substances. The Chemical Corps has proved by experiments in Nevada that dense carbon smoke screens off most of the heat. Such smoke can be generated in enormous quantities by burning coal or oil improperly in industrial furnaces. So when the warning comes, General Creasy suggests, smoking chimneys should draw a black blanket over the target city. Gamma rays, of course, will pass through smoke as if it were not there...