Word: heatedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This time President Eisenhower was proposing the legislation, Republican Senate Leader Knowland was in the forefront, and Vice President Nixon was turning on the heat behind the scenes. Therefore, argued Russell, the Southerners should not try to smother the civil rights bill of 1957 with words; instead, they should first try to amend the bill drastically, and be prepared for its eventual passage, even though they might reserve the right to try a filibuster at the bitter...
...inevitable followed. On many tea and rubber plantations, work came almost to a halt. Red labor leaders called flash strikes on the slightest provocation. Plantation managers who balked at the strikers' demands found themselves faced with anarchy. In Kerala's 107° heat, workers surrounded the homes of the managers, cut off their supplies of food and water. On one plantation the workers urinated in all the rain barrels, were defeated only when the plantation manager ripped off the roof of his house and collected rain water in the bedrooms. Loyal workers who tried to smuggle food...
None was more aware of this than the derrick monkeys, roughnecks, rock hounds and pebble puppies sweating in the 130° heat at Hassi Messaoud. Not for pay alone, which averages $400 a month, but from a patriotic spirit of excitement, the 83 Frenchmen (average age, 25) faced the needling, bone-dry winds and the oven-hot, reddish-yellow sand of the vast desert. Working peacefully shoulder to shoulder with them were 134 Algerian Berbers...
Asked by the Air Force to design an extreme high-altitude research vehicle, Aeronutronic rocketeers concluded that if the vehicle could be lifted above the densest part of the stratosphere before it was fired, they could get the advantages of high-speed starting without the disadvantages of drag and heat. They got in touch with General Mills, Inc., which had developed enormous balloons of polyethylene film, asked if the company could design a balloon that could serve as a launching platform. General Mills could...
Frozen Assets. In Akron, Mark Pollock, 9, and brother David, 4, sold out their entire stock in three torrid days, charging heat-parched neighbors up to 4? each for 180 snowballs, of various flavors, which they stored last winter in the family freezer...