Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the Red Chinese pilots scatter across the skies. Trained in U.S. tactics, the Nationalists fly in tight pairs and foursomes, allowing them to jump single Red stragglers with impunity. Despite official reticence, there are reliable reports that the U.S. has equipped some Nationalist planes with Sidewinders-a deadly, heat-seeking missile that guides itself to its target by seeking out the heat produced by a plane's jet blast. The Chinese Reds have no answer to the Sidewinder...
...bucket brigade" of Bandsmen and bystanders succeeded in removing most of the instruments before they could be damaged, but several drum heads were warped by the heat, and a newly purchased bassoon was completely destroyed. The big bass drum, long a Band trade mark, was taken from the building while its case was in flames, but remained apparently unharmed by the flames or heat...
Bleak Future. But Campbell, administering to a population of 860,000 and thus above the size generally suited for city-manager systems, soon ran into political troubles. Foolishly, he demoted Sheriff Thomas J. Kelly to a mere process server, only to have that popular vote-getter generate such heat that Campbell had to appoint him head of the big new Public Safety Department. Administrator Campbell's rigidity worried the political commissioners, who subtly retaliated by passing arbitrary ordinances for him to enforce, e.g., an apartment-only zoning rule for an area which Miami Beach had zoned for hotels...
Jolting through the red dust and equatorial heat of the French Sudan, a Land Rover pulled into the tiny village of Fanfie Koro. French Administrative Officer Gallierè stepped from the car, greeted the local chief, and solemnly accepted the gift of a white chicken. Speaking through an interpreter, Gallierè explained that the chief of the French government, General Charles de Gaulle, had decided to allow Africans to choose fraternal association with France or to refuse it and become independent. He held up sample ballots, told the villagers that a yellow one meant yes, a violet...
...center, barber and beauty shops. Rental apartments start at $85 a month (a few de luxe penthouse apartments will rent for up to $235), while a three-bedroom cooperative will sell for $23,850, with $5,240 down, $163 a month for principal, interest, insurance, taxes, janitor service and heat. Of this $163 payment $94.54 is taxdeductible...