Word: humidities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...humid, red-roofed Resht, an Iranian city of 120,000 near the shores of the Caspian Sea, death last week had an appointment with Mahmud Faqizadeh, 31. A burly, handsome young man who worked in the Imperial Forestry Service, black-browed Mahmud had quarreled with an eminent Reshtian businessman, brooded over the affair in the company of a bottle of vodka and then, while drunk, sought out the man and shot him to death...
Last week, at the trial of the sergeants in Izmir's humid, jampacked courthouse, there was little public evidence that all this display of official activity had yet brought anyone much closer to the truth...
...have been the air conditioners and the soft drinks-or maybe Hollywood was making better films; but movie business was never better than it was during August's humid midsummer heat. August's top ten moneymakers as reported by Variety: 1) North by Northwest (M-G-M), 2) Anatomy of a Murder (Columbia), 3) Hole in the Head (United Artists), 4) Porgy and Bess (Columbia), 5) South Seas Adventure (Cinerama), 6) The Nun's Story (Warner), 7) The Big Circus (Allied Artists), 8) Darby O'Gill and the Little People (Buena Vista), 9) Five Pennies (Paramount...
...weather that brought on this year's onslaught of crab grass was a mixture of wet, cold spring and hot, humid summer. a combination that weakens perennial grasses and strengthens the hardy weed. In Suburbia, where crab grass on a lawn can lower a man's status faster than a garbage can in his foyer, the prolific (up to 50,000 seeds a plant) weed has become a neighborhood problem, like juvenile delinquency; if not snuffed out in one spot. it quickly spreads to another. Yet it is almost impossible to stop: digging only exposes more seeds, poison...
...local priest, a handful of native sisters, and hordes of near-naked natives. The pilot: lean, sandy-haired Bishop Leo Arkfeld, 47, Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolic of the Wewak Vicariate, a 20,100-sq.-mi. area (more than twice the size of New Jersey) in Australia's hot, humid New Guinea territory...