Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MISSISSIPPI. Despite the stifling heat in Jackson's city auditorium, Governor James Plemon Coleman quickly whipped the state convention into line, eased a Coleman majority into the 44-man unit-rule delegation. He thus headed off the rebels who wanted to make third-party noises before the convention and left himself free to bargain in Chicago for the loosest civil-rights plank...
...desperate heat of the crowded South Carolina school auditorium, Staff Sergeant Matthew C. McKeon, U.S.M.C., seemed as cool and unmoving as a glacier. Under the glare of publicity unknown in a U.S. court-martial since Billy Mitchell's day, he sat silent among his seven whispering, paper-rustling defense lawyers. His bony hands were clasped, his gaunt face was impassive. To the right, in a jury box, were the seven members of the court-martial, six Marine officers and a Navy doctor. On the dais in front, the court's law officer, Navy Captain Irving Klein, surveyed...
...most backward. Even today 325 million Indians (85% of the population) are illiterate, and their per capita income is only $57 a year (v. $49 in China, $143 in Japan). Some 68 million-the equivalent of the total U.S. labor force-are unemployed. In summer in 120° heat, millions of city workers go without water because they cannot afford to buy it at one-fifth of a cent a glass. In Calcutta (pop. 2,568,000) it is still cheaper to hire a man or a boy to pull a cart than to hire a bullock, and thousands...
...drill on a heavily novocained tooth? Does a Chinese feel pain less than an Occidental? Probably not, according to Dr. James D. Hardy, who (with Dr. Harold G. Wolff and Helen Goodell) pioneered in measuring pain on a "dolorimeter" at New York Hospital. Using a lens to focus the heat from an electric bulb onto a blackened area of skin, Dr. Hardy has compared the "pain thresholds" of whites, Alaskan Indians and Eskimos. The Eskimos' readings were a bit blurred because of language difficulties, but all three racial groups tested said "Ouch!" or its equivalent at the same amount...
...much pain can a man bear? Nature, says Dr. Hardy, has provided him with a built-in ceiling. On the Hardy-Wolff-Goodell scale, pain is measured in ten degrees of one "dol" each. With their lamp heat, the researchers found that when the skin temperature got to 152° the pain reached its excruciating maximum. After that the pain stayed constant no matter how much heat was turned...