Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been heat-nothing sensational-but enough to make an undertaker sweat and a dog hunt shade. Big city subways were beginning to smell, tenement fire escapes were draped with bedding, park benches were solid with sitters. Bugs were back and committing suicide on a million windshields. Theaters boasted: "Cool Inside." The ice was about gone from high western lakes. Crab grass was invading lawns, screen doors already needed repairs, school was out and at least 53,487 small fry had been stung by bees or splotched by poison...
...Sunday, for the first time in weeks, the President strolled leisurely over to the First Baptist Church at 16th and O Streets, enjoying the 15-minute walk in the bright morning sunshine. The sermon topic: "America's Peril." In the cool of the evening he drove to the Lincoln Memorial in an open touring car, heard the National Symphony Orchestra play a presidential request number (Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik) from a barge anchored in the Potomac...
...They teed off again and it was still touch & go. On the 103rd hole, willowy, wiry ex-G.I. Lloyd Mangrum, 31, of Los Angeles, who had been wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, got hot, began shooting birdies. Not even a thunderstorm just before the finish could cool him. The 108-hole totals: Mangrum 428; Nelson and Ghezzi...
...cool for June, Vag thought, as he came out of the Harvard Square kiosk and put down his B-4 bag. He lighted a cigarette, picked up his bag and cautiously waited for an opening in the maze of automobiles...
Going to Summer School seemed ridiculous to Vag, something strictly for pudgy, bespectacled graduate students and spinsterish schoolteachers. He though of the season at the beach, lying in the sun all day, long drives on cool summer evenings. And here he was, going back to school. Back to stifling college rooms and trying to listen to long lectures, while outside, green leaves would sway beckoningly. And here was Vag, carrying his bulging bag down Dunster Street, a cigarette danging from his lips, and beginning to perspire...