Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judges' barge there was more confusion. While the crews were coming down the course in the day's first heat, somebody discovered that no flag had been provided to mark the finish. By some feverish activity with a penknife and a hammer a suitable flag was hurried together from a piece of canvas and a lath. And when the tide changed, the judges' barge itself began to drift downstream, so that between races the pile of crates which constituted the judges' stand had to be moved bodily from one end of the barge to the other...
...each household practically every day. We also try to keep up with the big cities in another way. We are still using coal furnaces in large numbers - even in new homes. Every little bit helps . . . Before awarding any trophies to New York or Chicago, do visit us during the heat of July or August...
...Orleans, the warfare is bitter between Publisher David ("Tommy") Stern's evening Item (circ. 103,153) and its well-entrenched competitors, the morning Times-Picayune and afternoon States (combined circ. 274,000). Two months ago in the heat of their running battle, the Times-Picayune scored a spectacular beat over the Item. The T-P broke a story that New Orleans detectives had collected $300,000 in a series of safe robberies. After the T-P story broke, the sheriff dragged the canals and bayous, found three stolen safes, including one taken from a local finance company...
...along the bank of Hains Point and in the numerous yachts anchored in the Potomac, and beneath a sky filled with planes taking part in the Armed Services Air Show, the Crimson almost pulled the upset of the year. After saving its strength by leafing through the morning qualifying heat to finish second behind Navy, the varsity used all its power in the last minutes of the finals...
These stories range from a subtle clash between occupied and occupiers in Germany to a fine case history in boorish cruelty and prejudice in a New England factory town. In the 15 brief pages of A Modest Proposal Author Stafford can convey the look, the heat, the boredom, and the sharp antagonisms being played out at a Virgin Islands hotel peopled by divorcées. Like the rest of these tales of interior sickness, it is a sure antidote to complacency. Like most of them, it pokes at the heart, but never makes it miss a beat...