Word: heat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reflected Heat. The Khrushchevs were led off after lunch to watch the shooting of Can-Can. Their hosts: Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine. Shirley had barely started the welcome speech she had learned in Russian before she became annoyed by the noises of the scene shifters. She said to them: "Could you do this later because this is awfully important to me?" And she said to Khrushchev & Co.: "I do hope you'll enjoy these parts of our picture Can-Can because we very much enjoy the Soviet artists you have sent to this country." After Frank introduced...
...Pumpkin. Laotians believe their race sprang from a supernatural pumpkin that an envoy of the King of Heaven split open with a red-hot poker. The first people to tumble out were the aboriginal Kha. a little darkened by the searing heat. After them came the cooler and lighter-skinned Laotians. Anthropologists take a duller view, and say that the Laotians are simply a branch of the great Tibeto-Burman race that swept into southeast Asia over six centuries ago and conquered the local Malay tribes...
...bowed into the room. As we shook hands before a large window overlooking a garden, a peacock screamed and a large lion walked by on the lawn. Then the Emperor gave me the news about his ancient Christian kingdom, perched Swiss-green and cool above Africa's desert heat. The news: Ethiopia has adopted a new posture in foreign affairs which approximates that of 'our great friend,' Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito...
...sought to correct history. The chewy, watery product that wartime G.I.s damned as Spam was really a lower-grade concoction, made under Army specifications: no ham (Spam itself has 6%-8%), cheaper cuts of pork, longer cooking of meat in the tin so that ersatz Spam could withstand tropical heat or Arctic cold. Naturally, the product had a certain unforgettable stick-to-the-ribs quality that provided a unique gastronomical experience. But it should not have been confused with real Spam. To prove its difference, Hormel claims that "94% of all Americans" now happily eat Spam...
...were picked off by snipers. Yet for a time it looked as if sheer weight of numbers might win out. and Author Fleming offers some interesting notes on the curious ways of people who expect to die-but hope to do so as ladies and gentlemen. In 110° heat, the Italian minister dressed for dinner each evening, and the wife of the U.S. minister disclosed that she expected to meet her Maker in her dressing gown "with a pink bow of ribbon at my throat...