Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teheran's "informed public," the students and the intellectuals, the swarming bureaucracy, the editors and the tea-shop sages, were feeling depressed. It was not the heat: one could always take a bus to the cool foothills of the Elburz Mountains, or sit beside a pool in a garden nightclub and watch the moon glide across the sky. It was not business: apart from the standstill import trade, business was fair. It was not politics, the capital's favorite indoor & outdoor sport. What really bothered Teherani was the growing realization that the West no longer seemed to care...
Challenger's Punch. What heat and light the campaign has generated were mainly to the credit of George Alexander Drew, 59, a handsome lawyer who resigned as premier of Ontario in 1948 to become national leader of the run-down Progressive-Conservative Party. Drew held his own seat in the crashing Tory defeat of 1949, then started chopping away at the party deadwood. He rebuilt the Tory machine around a cadre of enthusiastic young conservatives in and out of Parliament. Drew himself studied French so he could make a personal appeal to Quebec's voters in their...
...subject not well known. Since reptiles are "coldblooded" (i.e., have no built-in thermostats as mammals do), they must adjust their activities to the temperature around them. In cold weather they are sluggish, and if they stay out too long in Arizona's searing sun, they die of heat prostration. So Woodin believes that an important step toward understanding the life routines of desert reptiles is to observe their behavior and take their internal temperature under all weather conditions...
This involves a tricky operation. At this time of the year, the Gila monsters (thick-bodied venomous lizards with skins like orange and black beadwork) avoid the summer heat, come out only at night. So Woodin hunts them at night by jeep. After the sun has set, the monsters like to lie on the pavement, enjoying its lingering warmth. Woodin steps up to the beaded, venomous patient, pins its neck down with a forked stick, and, with practiced skill, slips a specially made, quick-registering clinical thermometer into the beast's rectum...
REPUBLIC Steel Corp. will build a $1,000,000 plant in Toledo to make 50,000 lbs. a day of powdered iron by a new process. Precision parts (e.g., cams, gears) molded of powdered iron fuse under heat into hard, smooth shapes that need no expensive machining. If Republic, the first big steelmaker to enter the field, can produce big quantities of powdered iron cheaply, it will be good news to airplane and automakers, who never have been able to get enough...