Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atomic Energy Commission. Since the publication of the Smyth report in 1945, the world has known that controlled fission reaction is possible in an atomic pile, releasing heat slowly over a long period of time. If a safe and economical way to harness this heat to a steam turbine could be devised, it would be an ideal propulsion unit for a submarine. Rickover persuaded the AEC to begin work on a pilot model...
...Heat On. When O'Dwyer ran for mayor in 1945, Sherman raised about $6,000 for the campaign. A few weeks before election day, a detective sidled up and said: "The general would like you to leave town, and he would like you to leave immediately." Sherman said the detective told him of an impending "terrible blast" (about O'Dwyer's 1942 meeting with Gambler Frank Costello, which Sherman attended) in the newspapers...
...laboratory of the University of South Dakota at Vermillion last week, young (28) Dr. Louis F. Michalak blacked the foreheads of two human guinea pigs with India ink to make the skin more heat-absorbent. The doctor tested their "pain threshold" with the heat from a 1,000-watt lamp. After taking their normal readings, Dr. Michalek reached for a pain-killing drug to inject. He meant to give them Demerol (safe dose: 100 milligrams). Then he would repeat the test on a third volunteer and himself, using methadon (safe dose: 10 milligrams). More pain readings were to follow...
...gauge, amateur and professional categories). A perfect round (25 hits, no misses) is fine shooting on anybody's skeet field. But a 25 was commonplace to the eagle-eyed marksmen who blasted away at the Dallas Gun Club's tent camp during the worst Texas heat wave in years...
...skeet shooter for only three years, steady-nerved Mrs. Mandel is already right up in the big time, last month won the Open High-Over-All title at Chicago, outshooting some veteran male marksmen to do it. In Dallas, wearing her regular plaid shirt & tweed skirt, despite the heat, she won the 20-gauge (100 out of 100) and small gauge (98 out of 100) competitions, for a split of the major women's titles with Mrs. R. H. Hecker of Tucson, Ariz. Of the big 12-gauge gun, Carola says: "It begins to get very heavy and very...