Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began as just another week of heat and torpor in the Congo. Sweating natives, as usual, loaded palm kernels into boats at upcountry river stations, while understaffed United Nations teams passed out powdered milk to babies and urged the villagers to expand their scraggly little farm plots. In Leopoldville, things seemed normal enough: harassed Premier Cyrille Adoula, struggling to hold his limping central government together, still pondered ways to whip Katanga's Secessionist Moise Tshombe into line, and noted nervously that Eastern Province's Antoine Gizenga talked of breaking away again to win autonomy for his own ragtag...
...testify. The unaltered male is belligerent, grumpy, concentrates only on the sex or lack of it in his life; his urine contains a special additive that can attract a romantically inclined female at a range of 150 yards. And the unspayed female makes a rotten pet. When in heat (in some cats, as often as every two weeks), she becomes outrageously wanton, rolling about, rubbing herself suggestively on the furniture, and yelling for a mate. To stop this erotic behavior before it begins, Greer urges owners to take Tom or Tabby at an early age (about eight months...
When the English editors rejected a Verwoerd suggestion that they police themselves, Verwoerd decided to increase the heat with his new Ministry of Information, presumably as a first step toward government control. But Verwoerd may never have to go that far if he can exert enough pressure on the English dailies-and the business interests that own most of them-to make a chauvinistic moratorium on criticism stick. "Naturally," says Johannesburg Star Editor Horace Flather, "it's preferable for the enemy to commit suicide. Then you don't have to murder...
...found Texas no smiling paradise. Droughts make the chiggers worse; floods bring out the rattlesnakes and copperheads; and the blazing heat of summer keeps people close to their ubiquitous air conditioners. In fact, Texas is so air-conditioned that even hearses are equipped with it, and un-air-conditioned automobiles have to be specially ordered. "I remember one we sold to a man that hated any kind of air conditioning," a car salesman told Bainbridge. "But his wife made him trade it in for a regular model. She had a French poodle that refused to get into...
Librarian Ruth K. Porritt has not veto the suggestion, although she has pointed out the difficulties in paying for heat, light, and an additional librarian. The matter is now being considered by President Bunting...