Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...riot that transfixed Cleveland last week was more ominous, in a sense, than any of the upheavals that have rent American cities in the hot summers of the '60s. In the stark statistics of death and destruction, it was less than cataclysmic. But all the other ghetto uprisings have been the result of chance or bad judgment, some random local incident or emotional shock, such as Martin Luther King's murder, that put the spark to the fuse. Cleveland's battle was planned...
...story frame house on Lakeview Road. Now more than 100-strong and armed with automatic rifles, police bombarded the dwelling with bullets and tear-gas grenades. During the early morning, flames burst out of one of the windows. A gunman shouted from the top floor: "It's hot up here!" "Then why don't you give up?" asked a cop. The man began firing once more. Within minutes the whole house was ablaze. Two charred bodies were later found in the ruins...
Moving North. Home air conditioning began in hot Southern states, which still lead in sales. Texas ranks first both in the total (1,880,000) and percentage (58.3%) of air-conditioned homes. The trend has gradually worked north; New York ranks second in the number of airconditioned homes. Furthermore, when . it comes to window units, families seldom stop at one. Most buy an air conditioner for the master bedroom, later decide that the children ought to have one, too, and so should the kitchen. "They're like peanuts," says a Westinghouse executive. "If you have...
They were Leonard Bernstein received a standing ovation; a woman sat in the previously all male press gallery; and a lot of bearded, beaded students saw the inside of the Park for the first time. Women in long black dresses walked by hot dog stands looking for their husbands as the Red Sox home's traditional brisk beer business fell off sharply...
...Mayor Lindsay's anguished call that "we've gotten off the track" than by drift in Vietnam, dabbling with inflation, and shilly-shallying on riots. Lyndon Johnson's oft-affirmed practice of seeking a high middle ground has gotten him--and men like Nixon and Humphrey--in more hot water than the grinding poverty and casualty rates which produce the most extreme forms of protest...