Word: simmering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actually, Washington (pop. 809,700), the only major U.S. city with a majority of Negro citizens (58%), has been relatively free of racial strife. But it has areas that simmer in much the same juices as Watts or Harlem. Later, after a White House press aide tried to cover up by insisting that L.B.J. had not intended to single out the capital, Johnson told reporters: "I meant just what I said-that we ought to try to face up to these problems that we have before we have to suffer more serious problems...
...always counted their physical charms as attributes, but how much of them they revealed has varied vastly with the times. In the forgotten '20s, bosoms were sometimes bared in flickering film orgies; in the '30s, Norma Shearer in the sheerest of slips was enough to make temperatures simmer. World War II G.I.s strained at the sight of Lana Turner in a sweater. Then came Marilyn Monroe's enamel-textured calendar shot and Brigitte Bardict's nudity-with-towel, and most barriers were down...
...This is a land so vast," reports TIME'S Hong Kong bureau, "that winter snows are already howling across large areas of it while other expanses still simmer in humid tropical heat. A land so fragmented that millions upon millions of its human swarm cannot understand the dialect spoken by millions and millions more. So ancient that its past is a palpable presence, and so modern that it has jolted the world with an atomic explosion. So expansionist that its neighbors have lived in varied degrees of fear since before the birth of Christ, and so troubled internally that...
Discussing the period after the civil rights bill first reached the Senate, Dirksen recalls that "We sort of let the thing simmer and jell, waiting to see what would happen. We knew that we could expect a freshet of long speeches. We knew that for about 30 days nothing would happen...
...button on the Sabbath, so the elevators are preset to go up and down automatically all day long, stopping at every floor. Since Jews can operate stoves if they are turned on before the Sabbath, all food in the kitchens is cooked before Friday sundown and then left to simmer through the night. Tearing toilet tissue is also forbidden by halacha, so Friday afternoons maids put white baskets containing separate sheets of paper in all the bathrooms. Guests may not check in or out or pay their bills on the Sabbath. Lights in the lobby are turned...