Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offing. By the time next summer's heat and humidity come along, the forecaster will have a "discomfort index" that combines both the air's temperature and the amount of moisture in it. Under the formula, explains Climatologist Earl C. Thorn, a discomfort figure of 75 might mean 80° temperature and 60% relative humidity, or it could mean 85° temperature and 30% relative humidity, or 75° temperature, 100% humidity. All are unpleasant. Thorn estimates that 10% of the population can expect to feel uncomfortable before the index reaches 70. When it reaches 75, half...
What did the new laws mean? Seeking to find out, newsmen had their worst fears confirmed: no photographs of court witnesses could be published; cops, magistrates, lawyers, judges and witnesses were barred from giving any information to newsmen about cases under judgment. France's freewheeling press reacted explosively. Cried Liberation: "It has been a long time since anyone in France could talk about what is happening in Algeria. Now we will not be permitted to publish what is happening in France...
...unemployment must be solved: "The U.S. is involved in the greatest competitive struggle in history." Yet Canham favors liberalization of nonstrategic trade with Russia. Says he: "It is definitely in our national interest that the standard of living of the Russian people be improved. But that doesn't mean, for instance, that we should enable them to get into the world petroleum market. That wouldn't necessarily mean a better life for the Russians, and it might give them the chance to exploit other peoples...
Does this outpouring mean credit is being used to excess? Bankers think not. Their delinquency record is minuscule; the recession's trough produced few deadbeats. Ben H. Wooten, president of Dallas' First National Bank, told the credit conference: ''Private credit has not been abused. The amount outstanding today is not excessive in relation to our ability to service...
...while writing the agony column for a New York newspaper, came to feel that he was being stretched upon the cross of the world's suffering. He goes insane and is murdered by one of the suffering souls he is trying to save. And what does it all mean? That nobody in his right mind can love his neighbor...