Word: hotter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Generalissimo, took command of the Chinese Air Force, became the first woman to command any air force. Acting as her own purchasing agent, Mme Chiang spent an estimated $20,000,000 for war planes, reputedly saved China at least an equal sum in "customary graft." One reason why the hotter-headed Chinese leaders finally persuaded cautious Generalissimo Chiang to engage in war with Japan was that they thought Mme Chiang's war planes were going to bomb Japanese cities...
Rightist columns by this time had completely surrounded Teruel. Rightists poured in explosives, made things hotter in the town than any place has been in Spain since the Siege of the Alcazar. The Peasant, leading Leftists in a furious effort to fight their way out, was reported killed in an armored truck. It was then bayonet against bayonet in what experts rated the most savage, large-scale battle of Spain's present civil...
...started one hot Saturday afternoon when the good people of Chicago were preparing to make the next day, Fourth of July, just as much hotter as possible. Gamins with a malicious glint in their eye tossed firecrackers under the wheels of passing cars. The Baby Giant Panda in the Brookfield Zoo was so scared that he refused the attentions of the trained nurse and pointed his tongue naughtily at his monkey neighbors...
...Sizzling platters" are made of an aluminum alloy. The hotter they are kept before being used the longer and more madly they will sizzle on contact with melted butter...
...Teachers College pedagogs, who showed instant enthusiasm for his songs and will no doubt plug them tirelessly this winter, Mr. Caesar said: "Maybe these songs of safety will get me to Heaven when my hi-de-ho songs would be sure to send me to a hotter region...