Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University under new $1,000,000 Air Force contract. School will build hypersonic wind tunnel and high-temperature research apparatus, test models at 15 times speed of sound and temperatures close to sun's surface (10,000°F.). Biggest job: to develop metals that can withstand such heat...
...Aramco's Americans come to Arabia with no sense of mission. In Dhahran they have created a Levittown complete with automatic dishwashers, bowling alleys, ladies' socials and nightly movies. Their pay is 25% above comparable jobs in the U.S. and tax free-but they growl about the heat, curse the dust, and count the days until they can return home and buy that restaurant or farm with the money they have saved. Saud's rigid Moslem code imposes added irritants. Books are banned (apparently in fear of subversive literature). Wives are irritated by the Saudi refusal...
...projected sales tax would impose a levy of three per cent on all items except food, medicines, children's clothing, rents, light, heat, gas, telephone, and other utilities...
Hurdler Joel Cohen won his heat, but just missed qualifying for the finals as he finished fourth in his semi-final heat, less than two steps behind B.U.'s Dave Settele, who went on to take fourth. Lee Calhoun, the eventual winner, won Cohen's heat...
...dash, Joel Landau reached the semi-finals, finishing third in his trial heat. However, in the semis, he lost a step at the start, and was unable to make it up, as Willie Williams, who went on to finish third, won the heat, with Landau a close fourth. Sandy Dodge and freshman Bob Weil failed to qualify...