Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good-sized audience of just under 300 persons braved the sticky heat in Memorial Church last night for the second of two organ recitals by Lois Pardue, Assistant University Organist and Organist of the Summer School...
...made up of nine high state officials under the chairmanship of Manhattan Lawyer Oscar M. Ruebhausen, based its recommendations on two fundamental facts: 1) in a nuclear attack upon U.S. cities, fallout radiation, the "silent killer," could cause three or four times as many deaths as the blast and heat from exploding nuclear warheads; 2) inexpensive fallout shelters would provide a "very high degree of protection" against fallout radiation. "Although thermonuclear war would be a major disaster," said the task-force report, "the magnitude of the disaster can be markedly limited by protective measures . . . A successful fallout protection program...
...over. Slowly, almost reluctantly, the 50,000 or more New Yorkers drifted back to their cars and edged their ways homeward, drenched still by the humid pall, their senses once again dulled by New York's night heat...
...with ashes, and the "walking dead" (lepers and the congenitally deformed) begged their way through the crowds. Along the route the gods would travel peddlers hawked souvenirs. And through the shrill mass moved boys with water buckets and bicycle pumps to spray the sea of heads in the searing heat...
...subject matter. To date, I have been exceedingly gratified with their wealth of knowledge, and with their presentation. In the classroom I have found the professors effervescing with scholarship, and daily demonstrating that, to them, "The work is play for mortal stakes." Yes, they stand there in the heat of the day enjoying the salutary sweat...