Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of the 1000 assorted alumni who filled the quadrangle, the most important factor was not the speeches, but the oppressing 105-degree heat which caused the speakers to cut their speeches down. In fact, the whole program was considerably shortened by the weather...
Last week Opinion Pollster George Gallup released soundings on the two assumptions. From coast to coast, union members and farmers were asked to express presidential preference in a trial heat between Stevenson and Eisenhower. For Democrats the labor response was chilling. Between the 1936 and 1948 elections, less than 30% of union members went Republican. In 1952 Eisenhower got 39%. Last week's survey, apparently reflecting a feeling of rank-and-file wellbeing, gave Ike a clear majority...
...satyagraha (peaceful soul force), a tide of violence was on the rise. Never far be neath the surface since January's Bombay riots, in which hundreds of people were killed, it broke again with a sudden and terrible fury in the blaze of India's consuming summer heat...
...submit first. They did so, though one said: "We don't care much about such diseases-we believe that they're a God-sent evil that we can never escape." The vaccinators used an instant preparation made from dried vaccine (conventional liquid vaccine spoils in the heat of Iran's outlying districts, where there is no refrigeration). Next came the women, breaking Moslem tradition by letting men other than their kinfolk touch them. The children yelled at the prick of the vaccinators, but a rearguard of tribesmen pushed them ahead. Band after band of Bakhtiari gained...
U.C.L.A.'s All-America End Rommie Loudd also tried to take the heat off his school by pointing his finger elsewhere-a move now known in amateur circles as "the Santee Gambit." "I was offered large sums of money and far more per month to enter other schools," said Loudd. "But I came to U.C.L.A. because I felt they were fair in what they were doing for all athletes. California offered me $1,600 cash and $50 over and above the allotted $75 permitted by the conference. U.S.C. arranged special entrance examinations for me to get in. They offered...