Word: hotter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always, the Vatican is a hot campaign issue; this time, Pope John has made it hotter than usual by meeting Aleksei Adzhubei, Nikita Khrushchev's son-in-law, last month, and otherwise establishing friendlier relations with the Kremlin. Fortnight ago, the Communist newspaper L'Unita exaggerated Pope John's recent Pacem in Terris encyclical as "an appeal for peace based on nuclear disarmament." This prompted a pro-government newspaper to crack that the Reds were suddenly "more papist than the Pope." In fact, the Vatican is quietly backing Fanfani's Christian Democratic-Socialist partnership, though publicly...
...togged in white ties and apprehensive grins, official Washington turned out in the Presidential Room of the Statler-Hilton hotel for its annual roasting by the 50 newsmen of the Gridiron Club. Just about every big shot in earshot got done to a turn. But the griddle was never hotter than when Attorney General Robert Kennedy was asked about his refinement of the art of Cuban ransom raising...
...atmosphere. Rays coming from the limb must pass slantwise through a greater thickness of atmosphere, and so appear weaker. This rules out one of the leading theories about the Venusian atmosphere: that it is highly ionized on top and therefore glows, making the planet appear hotter than it really is. Such an atmosphere would be brighter at the edges than in the center, and since the Venusian atmosphere does not show this, Venus can have no shell of ions to hide a temperate surface behind a glowing screen...
...Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama, was a tired old town in the '30s. "Grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft tea-cakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum. People moved slowly. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with. But it was a time of vague optimism. Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear...
...take unsalable cars, now lament that Detroit underestimated the market and is not building fast enough. To a man, they are convinced that the auto industry is about to perform the hat trick by following zooming 1962 sales, which should hit 6,900,000 cars, with an even hotter 1963. Some talk daringly of a sales surge that will equal 1955's record of 7,200,000 cars...