Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lions' success, according to Crimson line coach Ted Schmitt, who scouted the game, were a pair of tackles who went 60 minutes both ways in the New York heat. To do that in these days of two-platoon football-calls for a great deal of desire on the part of the players. Can even such a master of football psychology as Lou Little bring his team up to such a pitch for two straight Saturdays...
...million nickel processing plant at Nicaro in eastern Cuba is going full blast again. Built by the U.S. Government during World War II and shut down after the peace because of its steep operating costs, the plant was reopened last year to help meet the urgent need for heat-resistant nickel alloys for jet engines. According to GSAdministrator Jess Larson, Nicaro's furnaces are "already operating 8% higher in efficiency" than last time, and their output is "rapidly rising towards the projected goal of 30 million pounds a year." This was perhaps overoptimistic: in August, the second month...
...blanket of U-238. The fissioning U-235 in the core sends out a dense flux of highspeed neutrons. They are absorbed by the blanket, turning some of its U-238 into plutonium. Since this is also fissionable, it can be extracted chemically and used as fuel in the heat-giving core...
...Literal meaning: a mania for transferring drawings. Decalcomania designs, made of inks, plastics, lacquers or varnishes, are transferred from coated paper to another surface by moisture, heat, pressure or chemical action...
...extraordinary skill and guts. Both were severely frostbitten, one staking his life against the tentative Peruvian transportation network in a race to get his frozen feet under medical care. Both men spent a night huddled in a crevasse far up the 21,000 foot mountain, warmed only by the heat of a candle. Sack does a jarringly vivid job of describing first the fight to climb the mountain, then the even tougher struggle to survive the climb...