Word: humid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Argentines have been called "the Yankees of South America." But most Yankees of the U.S. know less about Latin America's most bustling country, its 13,518,239 people and the riches of its fabulously fertile "humid pampa" than they know about Novosibirsk...
Continued warm and sultry....Hot and humid today with mid-afternoon temperatures near 100 degrees. --Official Weather Report...
...nightfall, after hours in which telephone exchanges were jammed with calls, and in which hospital staffs and volunteer workers of all kinds toiled in the humid heat which oppressed the city, Hartford knew how badly it had been hurt. In the worst circus disaster in U.S. history, 128 bodies lay on army cots, neatly set out on the drill floor of the grey, stone State Guard Armory, and others were arriving. More than half the bodies there, and more than half the swathed, drugged forms in the crowded hospitals were children. Almost all the rest were women. Hartford...
...been muggy. Mining families, staring from the windows of their shabby-colored clapboard houses, were pleased to see the black clouds rolling up, with lightning flaring off in the distance. They hoped for a storm, as people do, to break the humid spell. At 8:30 p.m., in the 25 drab company houses that front on U.S. Route 19 as it climbs through Pleasant Hill, W. Va., supper was over, the dishes done, and the youngest children tucked away in bed. At 8:50 the windows rattled menacingly, like a snake giving warning. At 8:51 the storm came...
...days before the election a secret message sped across the country from the underground Democratic Front committee in Guayaquil, Ecuador's hot and humid metropolis on the Pacific Coast. The Dictator, said the message, had ordered his police to shoot any citizen who interfered with the poll. In his exile headquarters on the Colombian frontier, the Democratic Front leader, scholarly Dr. Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, pondered and schemed. Hidden in Ecuador, a spectacular family trio-the brothers Leonidas, José María and Galo Plaza-made ready to strike on Velasco Ibarra's behalf. Leonidas escaped from...