Word: humid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With tacit but clear approval from the military, Indonesian students continued to roam Djakarta's hot, humid streets, chanting shrill slogans, waving signs, and daubing threats on walls, shop windows and automobiles-demanding that the long-postponed Provisional Peoples Consultative Congress convene by June 1. The students want Congress to strip Sukarno of his President-for-life title, call new elections, and provide for a return to parliamentary rule. After several stormy days in the streets, one group of students called on the Sultan of Jogjakarta, Suharto's economics chief, and learned that Congress would likely convene...
...seven humid, wakeful nights, the crash of thunder and flash of lightning had kept the cariocas awake, and the superstitious among them wondered if the gods of darkness had decided to unloose their wrath. Apparently they had. Abruptly the skies opened over Rio, and in four days torrential rains dumped nearly two feet of water on the city. Declared Guanabara (Rio) Governor Francisco Negrāo de Lima: "This was not a rain; it was a Biblical deluge...
...eating canned C-rations ("C-rats" to the G.I.s), despite over 200,000 choice steaks and mountains of fresh eggs and vegetables waiting in Saigon's cold-storage facilities. Reason: field units have inadequate refrigerated space of their own-a must in Viet Nam's hot and humid climate. Even Saigon's "reefer" (refrigerator) capacity is grossly short: a single cargo ship can carry far more than that...
...killings have been on such a scale that the disposal of the corpses has created a serious sanitation problem in East Java and northern Suma tra, where the humid air bears the reek of decaying flesh. Travelers from those areas tell of small rivers and streams that have been literally clogged with bodies; river transportation has at places been impeded...
...Orleans, America's most hedonistic city, the humid air last week was laden with the stench of death, the streets overlaid by a fetid crust of mud. Day after day, as the floodwaters seeped back into the Mississippi, armed police and health crews pursued the macabre task of recovering human bodies and countless animal carcasses. They shot hundreds of snakes-and two alligators -that had been swept up from the swamps and dumped into the city by Hurricane Betsy. Dozens of citizens had been bitten by stray dogs crazed by hunger and salt water...