Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midsummer heat seared Washington, the Congress of the U.S. was overworked, jumpy, restive, turbulent, eloquent, despondent, confused. "We humbly confess," the House chaplain, Rev. Bernard Braskamp, observed in one of his daily prayers, "that in thinking of our days with their mornings and evenings, their problems and tasks, we frequently find so much that baffles and perplexes us." Overhanging the nation's busy lawmakers were two calendar clouds: 1) six weeks hence begin the presidential nominating conventions, and 2) four months hence 35 Senate and all 435 House seats are at stake in the congressional elections...
...seriously staggered. A two-week strike, say the economists, would have very little effect on manufacturing because inventories (except in specialized heavy construction) are comfortably large. On the union side of the picture, many a millhand, his vacation pay already earned, is delighted to escape the blistering heat of the plants in July...
...I.R.A. boys seized the Irish Free State consulate in New York back in 23 and held it under siege until the New York police riot squad drove them out. In Parliament he was a passionate advocate of better housing. "My religion never came under discussion even in the heat of controversy." And everybody understood why he took an active part in the underground movement to establish the state of Israel: the parallel was close to every Irishman...
...National A.A.U. track and field championships at Bakersfield, Calif., last chance for U.S. athletes to qualify for the final Olympic trials in Los Angeles this week, Abilene Christian's blond blur, Bobby Morrow, paced the sprinters with a world-record-tying 0:10.2 in a 100-meter heat. (At Berkeley doctors hoped that Duke's David Sime, recuperating from a pulled groin muscle, would be able to resume his duel with Morrow at Los Angeles and try for an Olympic berth.) Pitt's lithe Negro star Arnie Sowell easily stood off Olympic Champion Mai Whitfield...
...however, seemed very worried. It was summer, and the prospect of a two or three week walkout from 'the mill heat during July held few terrors for most steel workers. The industry was also heading into the midsummer slack; steel production, currently scheduled at 95.7% of capacity, would probably drop to 80% before the expected snapback late in the third quarter...