Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debate became acrimonious and mischievous. To hear the Bevanites tell it, it was the U.S., not Communist China, that menaced the peace. In the heat of the Laborite assault on Churchill's foreign policy, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was jolted out of his usual debonair mastery of the House, even lost his temper and apologized for it. Churchill maneuvered desperately to head off an end to the bipartisanship in foreign affairs which has lasted through World War II and six years of Labor government. Abruptly, the news from Sandringham House snuffed out the whole debate. One Laborite muttered...
...Faure well knew, France is on a gaudy whirl. Its cost of living, already high, has jumped 23% in the past year. Heat and light are up 42%. Last week the Paris Opera raised its prices 17% and Parisian cab fare jumped 20%. Ministers worried whether tourists would come to so expensive a country. The French themselves worried about the spreading gap between wages and prices...
Sing to the Longhorns. But except for end-of-the-trail benders, cowboy life on the drives was incredibly hard. Indians, choking dust, unbearable heat and bad food were normal features of the job. Night stampedes, sometimes started by Indians, often left cowboys and ponies smashed to pulp on the prairies by thousands of hooves. When cowhands sang sad songs through the night watch, it was not only because they were lonely: experience had taught them that teary ballads seemed to keep their shorthorns and longhorns from milling...
...Alexander, who acted as civilian consultant for the Allies at the Nuremberg War Crimes trials, said Dr. Schreiber "was a special Russian pet from 1945 to 1948," but that he fled to West Germany after an amnesty for war criminals had been declared. "Now he thinks the heat is off, and he's come over to our side," Dr. Alexander added...
...such complicated devices as radars and computers, which use hundreds or even thousands of vacuum tubes, supplying the power is a serious problem. The heat developed by the tubes is even worse. To keep the temperature down, they must be well spaced and cooled by an air stream. Transistors cause no such problems; they can be "potted" in plastic and whole arrays put close together...