Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cement would be needed in large amounts, and it would be advantageous not to have to bring it from the earth. If the moon has rocks containing the equivalent of lime and clay, cement might conceivably be made from them. There is a chance. Sowerby thinks, that the fierce heat of the unshielded sunlight may have disintegrated lunar rocks into ready-powdered oxides. This should simplify concrete-making in one small detail...
With something to shoot at, the other bobbers went after Feierabend with a vengeance in the second heat. The proud Swiss had an answer for them when his turn came: he broke the record again with a clocking of 1: 18.07, which left him a full three seconds ahead of the runner-up, German Hans Rosch. "It's all over," conceded one German official. "All he has to do is appear here tomorrow, coast along at a conservative 1: 20, and we toast the name of Feierabend again." Next day, running almost as fast...
...viruses (evidently close kin) that cause the two types of hepatitis have never been isolated. They defy attacks by chemicals, heat, cold and ultraviolet rays...
...unmade overnight, and an honest free-lance soldier scarcely knew his employer from one battle to the next. Roussel tried desperately to keep on the winning side, and for a time it seemed that his chance for a personal domain might come. But when, in the blazing Asiatic heat, he was himself defeated by the Turks, his spirit faded. When he was poisoned by a disgruntled court politician, no one was surprised. Matilda did not even weep; she took herself to a nunnery...
Weeks of toil had produced brilliant snow statues in front of each fraternity house. And on the insides all was heat and clean, ready for the weekend blast and the serious business of having the good time that has been planned and looked forward to all fall...