Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prospects: Better. At his news conference, despite the muggy heat, Ike was crisp and cheerful. He wore a brown suit and purple-hued tie, looked tanned and fit. Adroitly, he fielded questions about a second term. When a newsman suggested that the cheering roadside crowds in New England meant that many people "would like to see you stand for re-election," Ike quipped: "You possibly saw my friends along the roads, and we don't know who was behind in the alleys." The newsmen roared...
...calls for shoulder action (an hour of handshaking can be excruciating) inflames the shoulder; some forms of exercise, e.g., golf and fishing, in which there is less strain on the right shoulder muscles, are not difficult. The President's physicians have used a variety of treatments, e.g., deep heat, X ray, exercise and generous gulps of cod-liver oil. The bursitis is not dangerous, but the pain is still there, and it sometimes keeps the President from sleeping...
...last week. With cheerful intent the Russians had sent Nehru off on one of the most exhausting tours ever planned for a visiting dignitary. At Stalingrad, after laying a wreath on a mass grave of Red army soldiers, Nehru was already complaining of "an exasperating day of dust and heat and painful war memories." Flown 500 miles southwest to the Crimea, he was taken aboard a yacht which cruised along the coast to Yalta, and he slept at the Livadia palace, where the Big Three signed their wartime pact. Wherever he paused along the route he was besieged by organized...
...bearded, sword-swinging Sikhs want a lion's share of the Punjab. This is a parched and heat-seared prairie land in northwest India lying south of Kashmir, where the Sikhs fought a century-long battle with invading Moguls and earned the name of being the great warriors of India. Later, fighting as professional soldiers and serving as cops for the British in odd corners of the colonial world, they made their fighting reputation stick...
With half a mile to go, Washington's No. 2 man wilted in the heat, caught a couple of crabs and collapsed into the Husky bowman, who gave up and left his oar dragging in the water. Now Penn found strength for a sprint, came on to pass Navy and the Huskies. The Quakers were closing fast, but Cornell calmly raised the beat to 32, slid past the log boom at the finish, 10 seconds and a long 2½ lengths in front...