Word: scorches
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After all its film was exposed, an automatic mechanism set Lunik to spinning again, so that sunlight during its journey would not scorch one side while the other side froze and upset the delicate mechanism inside. Then, having gone around the moon, Lunik swung back toward the earth, began to transmit the pictures. A slow system was used when Lunik was still at a great distance from the earth, a faster system when it came nearer and its signals were easier to receive. The transmission was done by a sort of TV camera that scanned the pictures electronically, line...
...nations battle overseas, The missiles scorch, the tanks advance, While we continue at our ease With cattle-show and floral dance. Great powers must come To frightful doom: Only the impotent but gay Can hope to face the world today...
...beard off a chin or a world-saver off a soap box, the University is usually on hand with tutors, advisers, section men, and analysts. But even with the help of friends and elders, some of us will, like the grey haired men, smoke our cigarettes until they scorch our fingertips...
...were so little lessened that he returned to his favorite, bouillabaisse. Dumas cooked this dish himself and liked to down six helpings of it at a sitting. A doctor who partook of it once spooned some of the juice into his pocket flask, explaining he could use it to scorch off warts...
Rita tries hard, notably in the big scorch song, during which she wags the kind of pelvic semaphore that does not require a code expert to translate. But in the scenes of her conversion by the missionary (José Ferrer), she just looks confused-a condition that may be partly Actor Ferrer's fault. In his usual screen style, he tries so hard to give the impression that he is not acting that he doesn...