Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...computer cannot, of course, ensure total domestic tranquillity. One plump freshman complained that her machine-matched roommate "gets cold too easily and wants to turn the heat on." Her thin chum countered that she can't really enjoy eating cookies from home while her friend is on a diet...
...Ahab, ever raging against a malevolent creation. He sees barracks boredom as proof that God mocks man's aspirations, a daily confirmation of the absurdity of it all. Infuriated by Evans' platitudes, O'Rourke responds by plunging his fist into a stove and slowly squeezing the heat out of a burning coal...
WHEN Ed School students and Faculty fled Cambridge and the summer heat last June, a lot of them weren't sure exactly what they'd be returning to in the fall. The death of Martin Luther King had set off what appeared to be a tidal wave of reform at the school of Education. The Faculty had voted to fund the studies of minority group students, fifty of whom were recruited by late May. Dean Theodore R. Sizer received a comprehensive mandate from the Faculty for reforming the Ed School's urban program, and with tradition everywhere in retreat, groups...
...stand of virgin forest where the lumber companies are cutting the trees and spoiling the chances of saving it as a national forest." Backed by Dugger as editor-at-large, Olds intends to rekindle the Observer's old fire-and Texans can again expect to feel the heat...
...they treating you at Grumman," one man says to another as they sip their Schlitz and Schaffer. "Not bad, but I'm not going anyplace," he replies. A little further down the rubbed wood bar, a scotch drinker banters with the barmaid, asking how she likes the heat. "Most of the time it's not too bad," she says tossing her bobbed head. "I have a very nice apartment with a fan." The man looks at her pensively for a moment and then returns to his drink. The customary TV set is on, showing an old movie with two gray...