Word: simmers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middleaged, she gets a divorce and marries Jim at last. But now the shoe is on the other foot: old Nimmo, under the pretext of getting Nina's help with his memoirs, lays siege to her and carries the fort again & again. Even with Jim in a simmer of jealousy, she can't turn Chester away. At novel's end all three are living precariously together...
Occassionally, "rustication" was employed as a punitive measure. The offending student was sent off to some rural area for several months, where he could simmer down and, at the same time, receive individual instruction, usually from a Harvard graduate. In several cases, however, this method also failed. One student, having been rusticated to Groton for his leadership in a dining hall riot to protest the inferior quality of the food, fell in love with the area and refused to return to the College...
...engineer with his problem," says Rice. "At the speeds contemplated for the future, aluminum will relax and lose much of its strength. Canopies of today's materials will soften like putty and pull from their foundations. Radar equipment may give the wrong message . . . And the pilot would simmer like beef stew without refrigeration...
...Administration has offered all sorts of explanations for its go-slow mobilization. Following the doctrine laid down by George Marshall, planners base their compromise on the unpredictable reality of a cold war, which might hot up at any moment, or simmer for ten years. They argue first that they do not want to disrupt the civilian economy (the military used to state its needs bluntly, leave to somebody else the onus of ruling that the nation couldn't afford it). George Marshall likes to say that the U.S. cannot mobilize too fast, or it will be "all dressed...
...squeeze was on Mossadeq. His strategy-expel the company, keep the technicians-failed, as the British determined to clear out, and let the Iranians simmer in their oil until they came around. The old Premier tried concessions. Radio Teheran announced that Mossadeq was suspending plans to rush through an anti-sabotage bill (which would, in effect, have made the British responsible for any accidents during the takeover). Mossadeq dispatched a letter to President Truman asking "the great and esteemed American nation" for understanding and "help." But Secretary of State Dean Acheson had already outlined the U.S. attitude by charging Iran...