Word: slaked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boom, some shipyards cannot promise delivery before 1962. Anticipating a continued upsurge in world trade (which has already soared 50% since 1948). shipowners are ordering giant new ore carriers, combination ore-petroleum ships, roll-on, roll-off carriers to haul loaded trucks and vans, fast new freighters to slake the world's impatient thirst for machinery and steel, coal, wheat, and other basic raw materials that must be hauled from the ends of the earth (see color pages). Most of all, shipowners are clamoring for tankers. Though the world's tanker fleet has doubled since World...
...varsity tennis team will have its 4-0 league record at slake this weekend when it meets Brown and Princeton in two away matches. The Crimson will play Brown today and the Tigers tomorrow...
...Kamenev, former comrade on the Politburo, Stalin had once said: "To choose one's victim, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed-there is nothing sweeter in the world...
Double Mozzarellas. Her managers keep her on an allowance, but she has managed to slake part of her thirst for furs (including a $7,000 Aleutian mink coat after the success of Come On-a My House), to keep a three-bedroom house in Beverly Hills and share an apartment in Manhattan's dressy Hampshire House with Jacqueline Sherman, 27, a well-to-do Chicago girl who is her friend, duenna and general chief of staff. On free evenings, she hits the theater and nightclub circuit like any other customer (current steady escort: Actor José Ferrer...
...easy to add to a soil the chemicals that plants need, but every farmer knows that this is not enough. The soil must also have a good "structure," i.e., its particles must cling together in crumblike "aggregates." Without such crumbs, a soil containing much clay or silt will "slake" when wet, turning into sticky mud. Then as it dries, it develops a hard, dense crust that kills seedlings, resists tillage, and keeps needed water and air from penetrating the surface...