Word: hotter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial, exiled Archbishop Makarios to the Seychelles Islands for his dealings with EOKA, the Greek Cypriot underground. Last week, in a major gesture of conciliation, the British government accepted this argument. In doing so, it suffered the loss of one of its ablest statesmen and found itself in hotter water at home than ever...
...Crimson will probably not encounter too much opposition from the usually weak Tech squad, but it may have difficulty on the host's courts. They are much hotter than the Hemenway Courts, and if the Navy match is any indication, the varsity has a good deal of trouble with hot courts...
...Communism has produced a pathologically heightened sense of status-so that life in the embassy went on by rules something like the pecking hierarchy observed by barnyard fowl. Mrs. Petrov got into hot water for having put a comic picture within eyeshot of Stalin's portrait, and even hotter water when she was falsely accused of having thrown a pie at the ambassador's wife...
This year, however, Barnaby has had the temperature in Hemenway increased by 15 degrees for the last ten days, to ready his players for Navy's faster, hotter courts. This preparation, coupled with the power and depth of the varsity, makes a Harvard victory seem almost inevitable...
...Robert Montgomery Presents; I'm a Fool, with Natalie Wood, on General Electric Theater (CBS); and The Unlighted Road was shown on CBS's Schlitz Playhouse of Stars for the third time. All three shows exploited the Dean legend for frankly commercial purposes. "He's hotter than anybody alive," cried one NBC executive. The pulse-takers backed him up: Harvest, in which Dean was originally only a featured player, bludgeoned the opposition with a sizable 24.3 Trendex rating with Dean billed as star...