Word: heats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Questions? In Detroit, John H. Franklin explained to the court how his wife got her black eye: "She was frying chicken. The heat made the chicken muscles quiver and it kicked...
Westinghouse could see it used as an insulator in appliances such as refrigerators and stoves (it stands heat and cold well) and between metal sheets in prefabricated building units. Non-inflammable, it has a specific gravity between .008 and .012; among currently popular insulators, rock wool ranges from .15 to .25, fiber glass from .02 to .15. (Margery Sterling's meringue grades from .12 to .15.) Enough plastic foam to insulate a six-room house can be shipped in a single barrel, saving storage and trucking space, to the site where it will be used. A workman can soon...
...United Nations' first-and only clear-cut-contribution to checking Russian aggression resulted in the withdrawal of the Red army from Persia in the spring of 1946. After the Azerbaijan crisis, the Russians turned off the heat; last week, they turned it on again...
...heat was also on in Finland. A Moscow propaganda barrage last week accused Finland of breaking her peace treaty with the Soviet Union. Leningrad-skaya Pravda ominously reminded the Finns that they had received their national independence from the Soviet Union in 1917, and that "further consolidation of their state sovereignty ... is possible only by carrying out a policy of sincere friendship with the Soviet Union." Added Leningradskaya Pravda: "The anti-popular activity of Finnish reactionaries is inspired by overseas reaction. Finland is within the orbit of the keen attention of Anglo-American imperialists who are hoping to draw...
...first half of the novel, Mother Danforth's mind wanders wayward through the past, remembering all that a reader must know to understand what is to come, but also remembering such things as a day when she was a little girl, lying in the grass: "The heat waved over tier hands and face and the air rippled all around her in little rings and circulations of summer tunes. She put out a finger to deflect an emerald beetle climbing a blade of grass and watched it spread its pretty double wings and fly away; there was a long procession...