Word: smoldering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...violence flares in U.S. ghettos, legal questions smolder in the embers: If the state is obliged to maintain civil order, must it indemnify the citizen for property loss and personal injury from riots...
Aviation experts are already conducting research into a host of other safety innovations. Among them are such devices as an explosive charge to blow fuel tanks clear of a crashed plane; resilient, supertough nylon fuel tanks that would not burst on impact; a jelly-consistency fuel that would smolder instead of explode; and fail-safe instrument systems that would permit entrusting difficult landings to the automatic pilot. In zero-zero visibility, jet pilots crack, their only problem after landing may then be to find their way to the terminal...
Yale Administrator Henry Chauncey believes that gatherings do not smolder into mobs "if proper police methods are used. If the opposition is jovial, then the students are jovial. But if it's brutal, then they become brutal." The only-and probably unconquerable-difficulty is for the cops to sense the golden mean. Could they have better handled the Tennessee rioters last week? Even as the police tried to get the dying freshman to a hospital, Knoxville police were under continuous ambush, and the snowballing continued for hours after the ambulance had shrieked...
...North and South American heritage. It is inconceivable to him that a "Latin Republic" might want to shove itself into the 20th Century by means not wholly to our liking nor entirely dictated by our image. He is totally American in his inability to understand communism. "Now two revolutions smolder in the hemisphere: the Alliance for Progress and Castro communism. One is dedicated to democracy, justice, and economic growth; the other, conceived in bloodshed, is dedicated to violence, totalitarianism and the destruction of human freedom. The former will take time; the latter can come with the dawn. They cannot survive...
Bottle-green eyes smolder malevolently, and thin lips curl in a perpetual pout. "I was born surly," says Roger Eugene Maris, "and I'm going to stay that way. Everything in life is tough." But last week, as he has all season, Yankee Outfielder Maris knew just where to direct his sullen anger: at a baseball. Leaning into a low fastball thrown by Baltimore's Milt Pappas, Maris sent a whistling drive soaring high into the rightfield seats. It was his 59th homer in 154 games; he had come within one heart-stopping wallop of tying baseball...