Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nose-cone problem-how to bring a missile's warhead down through the atmosphere without too much heat damage-can be approached in very complicated or in very simple ways. A simple way that looks promising for even the fastest-falling missiles: sheathe the cone with Astrolite, a plastic made by H. I. Thompson Fiber Glass Co. of Los Angeles. Astrolite looks like the familiar brownish material used in workers' hard hats, but the fibers that reinforce the plastic are silica (quartz) instead of glass...
Drum Patter: one who feels drums, containing unstable propellants, for signs of heat...
...Vatican's action was drastic enough to raise the ancient quarrel between church and state in Italy to sudden white heat. Communists and left-wingers charged church interference in Italian politics; Catholics all over the nation held parades and rallies in support of the bishop. The Vatican radio declared that "the church is being denied liberty in the exercise of its sovereign powers." In the Chamber of Deputies, a debate on a Communist-sponsored bill to curb "clerical interference in political affairs" ended in fisticuffs between the Christian Democrats and their Communist hecklers...
...from the conviction of such committee members as Nobel Prizewinners I. I. Rabi and Edward Purcell that most high school physics texts and teaching techniques lag as much as half a century behind the times. Worse yet, physics is usually presented as a series of unrelated subjects, e.g., mechanics, heat, electricity. The committee's ambitious goal: a program that explores and relates such basics of modern physics as the wave concept and submicroscopic particles...
...Throughout, the committee tightly knit together its subject material; e.g., wave action is presented early in the course, is later used as a common denominator to connect such ostensibly different subjects as light, sound, atomic structure. Concentrating on basic principles, the course even treats as broad a subject as heat in its relationship to kinetic theory and to the conservation of energy...