Word: blisteringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first it seemed that he might beat cocky, towheaded Lew Hoad, Australia's rocket-launcher. He took the first set, 6-4. Then Hoad, in his finest form in two years, began slamming out a cannonball serve that Trabert could not match or break. Bothered by a blister on his racket hand, Trabert weakened in the third set, dropped five straight games. In the fourth set, ahead by 7-6, Hoad switched tactics, stopped blasting Trabert's serves and began dinking the ball back. Trabert's timing was upset. He could not clear the shots fired...
...When a blood clot in a coronary artery causes a heart attack, one result may be an aneurysm-something like a big blister-bulging from the heart muscle. Drs. William Likoff and Charles P. Bailey of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital report what is believed to be the first successful operation to remove one. A man of 56, formerly bedridden, has been, able to climb stairs without distress since the operation 15 months...
...another close match, Brooks Harris, Crimson number three out-fought Joe Grubbs, 6-4, 4-6, 8-6. During the match Harris developed a bad blister and was unable to play in the doubles. At four, Conrad Fischer continued his fine play with an easy victory over Bill Bailey, winning...
Volcanic action is not the only solution. Sometimes the hot blister merely keeps on growing slowly without breaking out. When it reaches a new stratum, it "cooks" the rock, driving out the water contained in its crystals. Soluble materials are dissolved in the water. When the water moves, through cracks or other outlets, the minerals in it are deposited, sometimes as valuable ores...
...Wolfe believes that the earth has suffered from this blister disease since its early years. The blisters have invaded all sorts of rocks, cooking out of them the minerals that they contain. He suggests that geologists look for blisters, ancient or modern, and then look for the ore deposits that their cooking has formed...