Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...away, Johannesburg Correspondent Alexander Campbell found a somewhat less enthusiastic welcome. After gathering most of the on-the-spot research for the cover story on Kwame Nkrumah, Prime Minister of the Gold Coast (TIME, Feb. 9), he wrote us a long letter, describing his troubles with travel, the humid heat, and getting meals and hotel accommodations in the West African country...
According to Court's calculations, residents of Portland, Me. will shudder in - 28° cold and swelter in 107° heat before another hundred years have passed. New York City's climate will swing between 107° and -16°, while the great plains of the Midwest will reach 115° or higher. Los Angeles, says Court, will have to face an embarrassing 23° chill, but Angelenos can take consolation in the fact that the Florida coast will feel an even colder 9°. Despite the high odds that he is correct, Court, like any experienced weatherman...
...actor who follows the famed Stanislavsky method of living the part. Working in front of a big mirror, he studies his form; after a stiff workout, he again goes to the mirror to see if his face reflects strain. He studies the opposition almost as closely. After a trial heat, when he knows he has to race the same runners again, Whitfield will turn to his closest pursuer and shake him by the hand. Whitfield admits: "I congratulate him, surely, but I study his face. How tired does he look? How much strength is there in his grip? That...
Blame-Weary. In Albuquerque, Purcell Felter got a divorce after declaring in a sworn statement from Japan that he joined the army to get away from a hypercritical wife: "I was blamed for the dust storms, the heat, the cold and all the natural phenomena indigenous to Albuquerque. I just couldn't take it any more...
...years ago, flying 7,500 miles in 60 hours, he landed in Iran for perhaps his toughest job. An Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. well was burning at the bottom of a cup-like rim of hills which held in the heat until the temperature registered 250° even some distance away. He showed Anglo-Iranian's crews how to rig up a bulldozer with asbestos-lined iron shields, got them to lay a 22-mile pipeline to the nearest river to pump in water to the work. Under the spray, he used the armored bulldozer to shove dynamite...