Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nominal' (Nagasaki-type) atomic 'bomb, the heat cooks the skin up to two miles away. But if a person happens to be looking at the detonation, he will certainly be blinded permanently at more than four miles away, and even at a greater distance his eyesight will be seriously damaged...
Juan Duarte still rode high after his sister's death last year. But last week, with the heat turned on high for officials suspected of corruption and with no Evita around to speak for him, Juan Duarte was dumped overboard. The night the blow fell, Duarte aimlessly took in a girlie-girlie show, idly went on to a nightspot. Two days later, in a more determined frame of mind, he appeared at Buenos Aires airport with a toothsome movie actress and reservations for two on a plane to Madrid...
...Britain, he modernized the smoky English fireplace, improved English kitchens with the Rumford Roaster and the Rumford Stove. He was rich enough by then to donate ?1,000 to the Royal Society for Rumford medals, to be given to those persons who made the most important studies of heat or light (the first medal went to Count Rumford). Hoping one day to return to America, he gave another ?1,000 to the American Academy for the same purpose...
Marx believed that capitalism would destroy itself by wars between capitalist states and by other "contradictions." Stalin, shortly before his death, emphasized his belief in the same proposition. Now the U.S.S.R., by easing the Communist heat, is acting on a basic Marxist belief, and hoping for disunity in the non-Communist world. It may get that disunity on Korea, or on Germany, or on many another issue...
...exhibitors were buoyantly optimistic about magnesium's future. At 27? a lb., it is already cheaper by volume than aluminum (21.5? a lb.), can be easily welded, has a low electrical resistance and high heat conductivity, and resists weathering. And there is plenty of it. In every cubic mile of sea water, still the principal source of supply, there is an estimated 12 billion Ibs. of magnesium...