Word: interior
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...core contracts, however, its internal pressures will rise, forcing the temperature rapidly back up again until the intense heat ignites the unfused hydrogen gas surrounding the core. The interior of the sun will now be hotter than ever, a dense core of incandescent helium surrounded by a thin shell of hot, fusing hydrogen. Over the next few hundred million years, heat from the core will drive surface layers of the sun so far outward that they will cool to about two-thirds of the current 6,000 degrees C surface temperature, and redden. The sun will have become...
...vessel rolled over, hundreds of passengers were hurled about interior waiting rooms, restaurants, bars and duty-free shops. "We were trying to find things to hang on to," said Maureen Bennett of Sussex. "It was so frightening." Said Clifford Byrnes of Coventry: "It all happened in a minute. Glasses started sliding on the tops of tables and then smashing. People began falling down. You could see the water through the portholes. Then the lights went out. Everyone started shouting...
...dangerously. This means, experts caution, that America is setting a time bomb. The scary possibility is that by the mid-1990s, as the U.S. becomes dependent on foreign oil for more and more of its consumption, OPEC could suddenly and steeply raise prices, throwing the economy into chaos. Warns Interior Secretary Donald Hodel: "OPEC is being placed back in the driver's seat. The U.S. is being set up for a majoroil-price shock...
Hand-painted tiles, stained-glass windows and brass samovars have transformed a drab warehouse in Valencia into a Dublin interior, circa 1904. Actors and actresses in long gowns, high collars and tails move about a realistic drawing room replete with chandelier and an old-fashioned square piano; in another room a dining table is set for 16 people. Outside, plastic snow falls steadily. In failing health, near the end of his career, John Huston is filming James Joyce's great short story The Dead...
...Secretary of the Interior, who deliveredthe "State of the Union" address to Model Congressparticipants yesterday, said that the55-mile-an-hour speed limit should be repealedbecause it lies within the sphere of state...