Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diamond-smuggling hero is also employed by an oil company in Africa, and is another rootless, if educated, man. His disorientation fits neatly into the stifling heat of West Africa, where life consists of Copulating, making money to take vacations, drinking, and playing tennis. Hero Reed Hodgins meets misfortune because he wants to make more money than Africa affords through legitimate channels...
...documentary contains little more information about Schweitzer than can be found in a very short biographical essay. Most of the scenes were shot in Africa in oppressive heat; as a result, the film's general quality smacks of better-than-average home movies. The producers have dramatized little of Schweitzer's eventful life, keeping the tenor of the story subdued throughout, almost underplaying their material. They review Schweitzer's early life in and around Gunsbach, in Alsace: the parsonage where he was born and grew up, his first schoolroom, and the quiet countryside he came to love...
...explosion. Its nuclear core, enclosed in a thick lead and concrete shield, contains fuel elements whose active material is natural uranium and uranium slightly enriched with fissionable U-235. Among the fuel elements circulates ordinary water, which acts both as moderator (to slow neutrons down) and as a heat-absorbing agent...
When the chain reaction starts, the water boils, forming high-pressure steam as in an ordinary coal-fired boiler. The steam, which is slightly radioactive, goes directly to a turbogenerator which turns its energy into electricity. Lack of an intermediate heat-exchanger to generate nonradioactive steam is the characteristic feature of the EBWR, and one of its advantages as an economical power producer. Chief disadvantage: because of the radioactivity of the steam, the turbine, condenser and related equipment are also radioactive and must be operated by remote control...
...After equaling the world's indoor record for the 60-yd. dash (6.1 sec.) in a semifinal heat, Olympian Ira Murchison nosed out the Army's Ken Kave in the finals...