Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vast swath of the nation's most fertile farm land, crops and cattle sautéed under the searing sun; an Agriculture Department spokesman warned that farmers were "right on the brink of disaster." A swarm of rattlesnakes invaded little Harrison, Neb., looking for water; southwest of Chicago, heat-crazed frogs swarmed by the thousands across parched fields...
...called by the Romans, who believed that caniculares dies resulted when the bright Dog Star, Sirius, rising at dawn, added its heat to the sun's. In popular folklore, dogs are supposed to be especially prone to madness at this season...
Israel fired off a note to the Security Council, and U.N. observers rushed to the scene. In Tel Aviv, Mapai leaders happily expected that the renewed border violence would divert the heat from Eshkol on the home front, were optimistic that Harel's campaign would finally fizzle. Not so Harel. He was still accepting all speaking engagements that came his way. Said he: "This is not my privilege but my duty...
...future, a version of the M2-F2 will be equipped with an X-15 rocket plane engine and sent to an altitude of 80,000 ft. at a speed of 1,200 m.p.h. before starting its powerless descent. As more funds become available, a piloted lifting body with a heat shield will be launched from Cape Kennedy atop a Titan rocket. It will make a suborbital flight from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, then re-enter the atmosphere for a controlled landing at Edwards Air Force Base...
Cameras with Heat. On spot news stories, few other newsmen in the area move as fast as the reporters from WDSU. When the plane carrying former New Orleans Mayor deLesseps Morrison failed to land on schedule, Corporon wasted not a moment. He chartered a plane, sent out a reporter and cameraman to retrace Morrison's route. WDSU had the only New Orleans reporters at the crash scene and shot the city's only film of the removal of the bodies...