Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pleasant, white-collar neighborhood of small apartments, neat homes, frolicking children and Dairy Queen stands, well removed from the city's roiling slums-and with one of its lowest crime rates. As one resident put it, "It's the kind of neighborhood where you can walk your dog after midnight...
From the Rockies to the Atlantic, from Boston to Birmingham, the first two weeks in July-traditional start of summer's "dog days"* were as hot as anyone could remember. Temperatures brushed past the 90° point for nine consecutive days in New York, Washington and Baltimore, twelve days straight in Denver. In St. Louis the mercury soared above 100° six days running, at one point hit a broiling-and almost unbearable...
...barrier actually comprised three immense, tightly interlocked, high-pressure cells without precedent in more than a decade. At week's end one of the highs, out in the Pacific, shifted a bit, and a welcome Arctic draft sneaked through the wall to break-at least temporarily-the dog days of July. August was yet to come...
...called by the Romans, who believed that caniculares dies resulted when the bright Dog Star, Sirius, rising at dawn, added its heat to the sun's. In popular folklore, dogs are supposed to be especially prone to madness at this season...
Somehow Beethoven under the stars is, like a hot dog at the ballpark, relished all the more by virtue of the setting...