Word: heats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heat of the San Joaquin Valley during grape-picking time must surely rival hell in its intensity. I lasted less than one day picking, or more accurately "cutting" grapes; and I can testify that picking cotton is fun compared to that...
...talked into accepting the new homes. One reason for their reluctance was that the relatively luxurious housing is bound to cause jealousy and antagonism on the part of the other 45 families. Besides, without electricity and with a constant firewood shortage, the dwellings will be impossible to heat...
...committed suicide last year, and the crime rate is higher than Chicago's. A Methodist Church survey shows that 27% of Las Vegas residents are divorced. The illusory Vegas is the one that will be seen by 14 million visitors this year. Like giant mirages created by the heat vapors of the get-rich-quick furnace, the neon-lit, freon-cooled sand castles of The Strip rise amid the cacti and creosote bushes, massive monuments to hedonism. Inside their carpeted, clockless confines, nothing seems real: time stands still, and $100 is just a black gambling chip. This Las Vegas...
...baseball. Perhaps his chief asset is strength. Although his motion is deceptively smooth, McNally comes off the mound so hard that he regularly snaps his shoelaces. As evidenced by last year's performance, his 5-ft. 11-in., 190-lb. frame is not easily sapped by the heat. Says Manager Earl Weaver: "Dave has it all, and when he puts it together, it can be a no-hitter any time he pitches. When his control is right, he's just about unbeatable...
...music-drama is a lurid vision of hell on earth. Horror builds to a crescendo as sacral scenes of church and cloister are followed by wild orgies of the possessed nuns and a ludicrous exorcising ceremony in which the crazed sisters howl, shriek and twitch like wolverines in heat. Present in nearly every scene is a revulsive chorus of guttersnipes, beggars, epileptics and whores who leap and leer with a demonic joy reminiscent of Hieronymous Bosch...