Word: hotter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rolls boasts twin horizontal headlights, a lower hood, wider grille and hotter engine (around 270 h.p.). For the select minority who can afford Rolls prices (from $15,655 in the U.S. for the Silver Cloud II to $27,617 for the Park Ward), this was big news. But for Rolls-Royce Ltd. itself, autos are now little more than a sideline. Since World War II, the company has diversified into everything from rocket engines to nuclear propulsion systems for submarines. By so doing, it has become one of Britain's notable growth companies; since 1950 its sales have soared...
Hoping that his nature book, which sells at cost, may prove even hotter, Plattes has ordered a first printing...
Communist Poland has a continuing cold war all its own, between the Roman Catholic faithful of Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski and the Red bureaucrats of Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka. Recently, the cold war has been getting hotter...
...hotter a star gets, says Dr. Chiu, the more neutrinos it generates. When the internal temperature reaches 6 or 7 billion degrees, neutrino production shows a sudden increase. Most of the particles escape with a rush, leaving the star's center almost empty. Then the star collapses and causes a gigantic explosion that sprays ordinary matter as well as neutrinos into space...
...captain killed during World War II. Out of $500,000 worth of ashes composed in part of a Picasso etching, a $7,000 soup tureen and her private Tiffany's, Zsa Zsa Gabor salvaged little more than sketches of two former husbands and some love letters ("They were hotter than the fire"). Like everything else in Southern California, reactions to the high-caste holocaust constituted a weird and wonderful display of human idiosyncrasies. Bandleader Billy Vaughn was among the 150 fire fighters injured (none of them seriously). Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Willard Libby came home to find the roof...