Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poverty. The sensations of being poor are scarcely comprehensible to the 170 million Americans who are not poor: the hollow-bellied, hand-to-mouth feeling of having no money for tomorrow; the smell of wood smoke that hangs over Southern shantytowns?romantic to the suburbanite, but symptomatic of scant heat and pinchgut rations to the poor; the bags of flour delivered by a well-meaning welfare agency, in a household that has no oven; the pervasive odor of human urine and rat droppings in perennially damp walk-ups; the bite of wind or snow through a wall of rotten bricks...
...often idle for lack of fuel. China's biggest oil refinery at Taching was partly destroyed by sabotage and is still operating well below capacity-and below China's needs. Shortage of oil cut power to three hours a day in Canton in January, left Peking without heat for much of the winter. Steel and textile production are also down, and only the best weather in a decade last year prevented a fall-off in grain production that would have meant famine in many places...
...order to pressure Dubcek into slowing the pace of liberalization. Radio Prague announced belatedly that the troop movements were part of Warsaw Pact maneuvers and that the Czechoslovak government had been notified in advance that they were to take place. But the hard-liners were clearly trying to put heat...
...fact, it was all over last Tuesday when Winthrop's "B" boat crushed a heavily favored Kirkland second boat by an impressive 6.5 second margin. When Leverett House failed to qualify for the first boat finals in a preliminary heat, Winthrop's Straus victory was assured...
...Ferris Booth Hall was commandeered by the Strike Steering Committee and friends to serve as the nerve center of the anti-mobilization. The floors were filthy, marked by hundreds of crumpled-up leaflets. The rooms were temporary kitchens with loaves and loaves of bread and hot plates to heat canned spaghetti. Specially-appointed press agents handled snotty newsmen. "They can sure as hell wait until we're ready to talk to them, and be sure and keep them off this floor without appointments," Mark Rudd instructed them...