Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...humidity; it was the heat-the searing, scorching, scalding heat of an Indian summer. Unforgettable in any year, the hot spell of 1958 was worse than any for a decade in New Delhi, half a century in Andhra Pradesh. The thermometer hit 121°F.* in the pilgrim center of Bhadrachalam; it hovered around 100°F. in Delhi even at night. Except in the cool hills to which only a few could escape, a relentless sun licked the country like a flamethrower. And from the sun came tragedy...
...heat brought drought; the drought brought famine. In Rajasthan state last week men, their crops parched and their cattle killed, were eating slugs, dried grass and flowers. In Bihar 90% of the wells had dried up; rioting broke out among villagers who camped all night at the few wells that still gave water. In Calcutta (top temperature 111°F., the highest since 1924) half the railwaymen refused to work in the heat, created such chaos with train schedules that mobs smashed the offices of stationmasters in protest...
Since the hot weather began in May more than a thousand have died in India from the heat. In the days of the British raj, civil servants used to flee from the hot plains to the summer capital in the cool hill town of Simla. But Indian civil servants, afraid of the charge that they are unwilling to put up with what the voters must, have to sweat it out in dusty New Delhi...
...would be silly to exhaust yourself in the heats," said Australia's Merv Lincoln after he loafed through a fast 4:07.9 mile to qualify for the National A.A.U. championships at Bakersfield, Calif. Aussie Herb Elliott felt the same way. But Herb Elliott, who at 20 shows every sign of becoming the greatest miler ever, seems constitutionally incapable of not cracking some sort of record every time he puts on his spikes. He breezed through his heat in 4:01.4, a new meet mark...
...fishing or working on their boats, they drink and brawl. As Catholics, they sometimes go to the church at a mainland town and give a welcome of sorts to the priest when he visits the island. But tempers are quick, violence is always near the surface, and the blazing heat is the most prominent fact of life...