Word: relighting
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Vacuum Extinguisher. If the power is to be cut off entirely, it can be done by extinguishing the rocket's fire. This is almost impossible at atmospheric pressure; if the flaming propellant is extinguished, it tends to relight. But in the vacuum of space all that is necessary is to blow off the rocket's nozzle. The vacuum outside strikes into the rocket's heart. The hot combustion gases are sucked away from the unburned fuel so quickly that they do not heat it to the kindling point. The rocket's fire goes out instantly...
...operations in the Youngstown, Ohio district rose to 64% of capacity v. 56% the week before, hundreds of workers trooped back to work. Furnaces glowed again: U.S. Steel relit a blast furnace at its Youngstown works and two open hearths in Pittsburgh; Bethlehem Steel planned to relight four or five open hearths at its Lackawanna works near Buffalo...
Outside the wall, a young Hindu was seized. He had placed the crude bomb, then had stood well back waiting for the explosion. It did not come. As he moved closer to relight the fuse, the bomb went off. He was the only casualty...
...Geneva last week there met, for the first time since World War II, a cultural conference of the remnants of Europe's brilliant intellectuals. Their purpose: to try to relight those lamps of civilization which Viscount Grey, watching darkness close over Europe in 1914, said would not be lighted again in our time. Near by loomed the abandoned palace of one of man's highest hopes: the League of Nations. Around them lay a shattered Europe whose mood might be conveyed in the title of one of Delegate Georges Bernanos' books: Vast Cemeteries in the Moonlight...
...under the old man's arm. Garner said, "Thank you. Thank you. These are mighty good.'' He stood, looking up, as the train began to roll away. Then he walked off, stopping once to strike a kitchen match expertly on the seat of his trousers and relight the frayed stump of his Mexican cigar...