Word: humid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swingers and Salamanders. The new mood of lotus eating is nowhere more in evidence than in Washington, which was refreshed by a respite from the humid August heat but remained in virtual shock from the novel simultaneous exodus of President, Cabinet and Congress. White House staffers brazenly dare a set or two on the presidential tennis court, or lock themselves in their offices for a cherished hour of uninterrupted reading. West Wing telephones now sometimes ring a dozen times or more before anyone answers. The Georgetown swingers have abandoned Clyde's on M Street, and the venerable waiters...
...these reasons explain a day in the red for July 18. They lone winners were SUN TICCO ($8.60) and WOLF WILLOW ($5.20). The night before the Scientist had enlisted the handicapping aid of a high rolling horseplay from New York, the Wellesley Kid. It was a very hot and humid night. In a fifth floor apartment two blopcks over some well-shaped young ladies fought the heat by not wearing andy clothes. The Wellesley Kid enjoyed the Cambridge view as he never had. He spent the night focusing his binoculars, occasionally puncturing the evening with such remarks...
...clang of cymbals and drums, China plunged into a pandemonium of celebrations. From humid, semitropical Yunnan to frigid Heilungkiang, millions of Chinese paraded through cities and towns, waving the little red books of Mao Tse-tung's quotations and chanting "Long life to Chairman Mao!" Many carried sunflowers as symbols of loyalty to a man whom his followers revere as "the red sun in our hearts." The occasion was, according to its official title, "The Ninth National Congress of the great, glorious and correct Communist Party of China...
...caused by vegetation. But scientists will probably have to wait for a more definite answer until the Mars landing in 1973 of the unmanned U.S. Project Viking capsules, which will be equipped with life-detection instruments. Because the best prospects for life would almost certainly exist in the most humid areas, Astronomer Schorn suggests that the first landing be made at the edge of a receding polar cap, where the Martian soil should be as wet as it ever gets...
...guards lies the enormous Chinese prison camp called Hsing Kai Hu, a complex of nine state farms and dozens of villages, all manned by penal' labor. A former prisoner there recalls the climate as terrible: temperatures hovering around 40° below zero in winter and soaring to a humid 95° in summer. During the warm seasons, mosquitoes from the myriad swamps of the area forced prisoners to wear long-sleeved jackets and full-length trousers despite the heat...