Word: white-hot
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...sellout crowd of 13,000 jammed into the West Side Tennis Club stadium at Forest Hills last week for the semifinals of the national championship tournament; the biggest U.S. tennis gallery since 1946 was primed for white-hot competition. One bracket pitted Australian Frank Sedgman against Art Larsen, the flashy, unpredictable U.S. champ; the other match paired husky Dick Savitt, who had earned his No. 1 seeded position by knocking off the Australian and Wimbledon titles, against Vic Seixas, flashing the best play of his five-year career...
...across was a little sex appeal. The pressagents searched high & low for the kind of face that would look appealing in the glow of a blast furnace, picked Traude. Forthwith she became a "model" furnace worker, was billed as the "first woman rolling-mill engineer," and began wrestling with white-hot sheet metal instead of carbon copies. Her smudged but happily smiling face graced the front pages of Germany's Red press, and a Communist movie company made a picture about...
Navy Chaplain Otto Sporrer had been with the Marines long enough to decide that no one else is quite so good a fighting man as a marine, had confirmed his conclusion in Korea. Like many another serviceman, he also had some white-hot observations to make on the inadequacies of fighting men in other outfits. Unlike most, Chaplain Sporrer, a Roman Catholic priest, got his accusations into print in an unsigned article (title: "The Shame and Glory of Korea") in the California newsmagazine Fortnight. Last week copies of Fortnight began popping up all over the Pentagon; most of them were...
Nininger does not believe that important masses of iron are buried under the crater. Chunks found near the rim, he thinks, were loosely attached parts that somehow escaped the heat. The rest of the two main meteorites flashed into vapor and fell to earth as a deluge of white-hot iron rain...
...into a rapidly growing "ball of fire," which dims for an imperceptible instant, then grows to a diameter of 900 feet at a temperature of 7,000° C. (see diagram). Around the fire ball forms a shock wave - a shell of air compressed so tightly that it glows white-hot...