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...most. This plateau, sloping to the southeastern angle of the Black Sea, is cut off from the rest of Asia Minor by a barrier of rugged mountains, blessing it with political and climatic isolation. Rarely above 88° in summer or below 10° in winter, the weather, humid, temperate, contrasts with that of not distant inland regions where great extremes of heat and cold are common...
...humid, but happy Houston. Discord waned. Celebrities furnished the atmosphere of a glorified picnic instead of a political dogfight...
Purple Approach: "More jungle-humid, reeking. A soldier plucks twenty dollars' worth of purple orchids (New York quotation) and sticks them in the band of his sombrero. Troops of screaming monkeys swing past, stopping occasionally to grimace at us. From the depths of the forest, mountain lions roar. Huge macaws wing across the sky, crying hoarsely and flashing crimson. We ford and re-ford the north-flowing tributary, for endless hours we toil across the Yali range, and finally drop down near Jinotega in another night of driving rain over a road where the horses roll pitifully...
Houston, Tex. Houston will be hot. Houston will be humid. On June 26, Houston mosquitoes will be hungry. At a National Democratic Convention, tempers run short even oftener than monies. The Moody-boosting for Vice President will probably die down next week as lightly as it sprang up last week after Governor Moody's appearance in Washington...
...Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital operating room last week, one Dr. John Miller was performing a delicate operation on a patient's throat. Surgeon, assistants and nurses were wrapped in sterile linens. Suddenly, into the humid room, sidled one Leo Goldstein, process server, wearing a surgically filthy raincoat. "Scat!" cried a nurse...