Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said later, "and it became so cold that it was unbearable. Powers Hapgood, the organizer, and myself crawled on our bellies along the railroad tracks to go beyond the Army lines, and told state officials that the men planned to start fires in an attempt to keep warm. The heat was turned on and the lights were turned off. Again we went out and reported to officials that the men planned to make torches of oil-soaked waste rags. The lights were lighted again." After 44 days, the U.A.W. won the strike, organized General Motors and within a year...
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 8 (French National Orchestra conducted by the composer; Angel). The eighth of Villa-Lobos' nine important works inspired by Bach and flavored by Brazil in its first recording. The music is mellow, slightly warmer than body heat, touched with musical humor in the paso doble part of the second movement, and generally more relaxed than the music of temperate climes...
...Alas! says Cadart, life is not so easy. The peaceable snail has a host of enemies: the weather, rats, turtles, crows, foxes, ducks, parasitic insects that lay eggs in its flesh, and picnickers who abandon bits of canned heat, which is death to snails. When Cadart has described all the troubles of les escargots, he is close to tears...
...track at London's White City Stadium, Tabori turned on the steam in the last 300 yards and finished in 3:59. Just .8 second behind, fast enough to get under the four-minute barrier, pounded Britain's Three-Mile Champion Chris Chataway in a virtual dead heat with Half-Mile Champion Brian Hewson...
...With the heat thus turned on ODM Chief Arthur Flemming, it looked as if he would ease up on stockpile buying. He las already released 150 million Ibs. of aluminum originally headed for the stockpile in the first six months of this year, slow industry wants him to release another 250 million Ibs. in the last half. Said Flemming: "It does not make sense to . . . stockpile [a specific amount] if that tends to undermine seriously the economy." It also looked as if Flemming was going to spur a third round of expansion by handing out fast tax write-offs...