Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME, realizing the heat of the controversy, neither intended nor perpetrated calumny or libel. It respects Msgr. Elan's position, regrets his anger, and stands by its story...
Spearing the Commissioner. No Somali saw it that way. Mobs surging through Mogadishu's heat (100° plus) had to be broken up by mounted police swinging long batons; before the disturbance was quelled, some 500 people were arrested. In Hargeisa, the onetime capital of British Somaliland, crowds stoned British homes and cars, attacked the British consulate. Presumably because of Britain's close ties to the U.S., newly arrived U.S. Ambassador Horace Torbert was stoned out of the town of Galcaio, his Land-Rover narrowly outdistancing a mob of 1,000 men, women and children. In Kenya itself...
Ever since he lifted his ban on civilian political activity last January, the heat has been on South Korean Strongman General Park Chung Hee. Anger over the strong-arm tactics of the feared Central Intelligence Agency forced Park to sack his top hatchet man (and nephew by marriage), C.I.A. Boss Kim Chong Pil. Investigations revealed wholesale corruption within South Korea's C.I.A., and charges were leveled that Park had done nothing to relieve South Korea's economic chaos. Threatened with civil war by disaffected members of his own military junta, Park reluctantly bowed out of the forthcoming civilian...
...only other Harvard swimmer to place in a final heat was Steve Seagren in the 1650-yard freestyle. Seagren failed to place in the finals...
From the Bark. Endocrinologist Conn got his lead from what seemed like experiments in a torture chamber. To help the armed forces cut down World War II manpower losses from tropical heat prostration, he kept volunteers working at 90° F. and a relative humidity of 80% to 90%. After about a week, the men became acclimated to the artificial weather...