Word: layered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fourth film version of Mark Twain's fictional portrait of the artist as a young rube, has suffered the melancholy fate of Old Hank Bunker. "Old Hank," said Huck, "he . . . fell off the shot-tower, and spread himself out so that he was just a kind of a layer, as you may say; and they slid him edgeways between two barn doors for a coffin, and buried him so, so they say, but I didn't see it." Moviegoers may now see it, thanks to Sam Goldwyn Jr., who spent $1,400,000 making this movie version...
...cone and warhead would have to crash back into the earth's atmosphere at near-meteor speed of 15,000 m.p.h., with enough motion of energy to vaporize five times its weight of iron. Piling up ahead of the re-entry body would be a high-pressure air layer reaching up to 15,000° F.-about 1½ times as hot as the sun's surface. But beyond that, the physical properties of air at such speeds and temperatures were almost entirely unknown, and no existing wind tunnel was fast enough to furnish the necessary data. Kantrowitz...
...contrary proved to be the case. Dr. H. Julian Allen of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics argued conclusively that a blunt nose was better for the heat-sink cone. The snub nose, said Allen, would help pile up in front of the cone a high-pressure layer of air that would itself act as a potent insulator. That way, most of the immense heat would be swept off the edge of the cone into a long tunnel...
Fragile Crust. Geologically, Chile is in a mountain-building period, thrusting up the Andes Mountains over slow-moving heat currents in the solid layer beneath the earth's crust. When the heat currents flow evenly, the surface holds steady. When the currents vary, they put strains on the crust, which slips ponderously along lines of weakness called fault lines. The magnified result of such slips can be devastating to humans and their buildings on the earth's surface. Transferred to the sea, the giant push creates huge seismic waves...
...layer of laughter, on a grim foundation, was an uninhibited, spontaneous measure of the extent to which Alateens learn to live with their special set of problems. They share advice on such crises as what to tell a date who shows up when Dad has been taken drunk in the living room. Answer: explain later to the date that father is an alcoholic and a sick person. Through discussions, lectures and films, they explore the broader problem of alcoholism. But their study is not aimed at helping them to help a drinking parent to reform or even find...