Word: swelter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
More seersucker jackets came out of dark closest recesses yesterday as Cambridge continued to swelter through the warmest autumn week in local history. Boston weather bureau officials envisioned no relief for three or four days, although temperatures will probably not climb back to the record-breaking peak of 83 degrees on Saturday...
...least one got through. And since Malta has been pounded daily by Axis bombers, the proportion is probably larger. The sinking of four ships suggested that the Axis is determined to keep Field Marshal Erwin Rommel up to attack strength, even though North Africa is already beginning to swelter in its unbearable summer heat...
...admits it, is a moron, I admit of no defense. Once I deplored the stupidity of the ivory-tower artists; there I made a mistake. Ivory towers may fall and the occupants may be crushed, but who would not choose to be crushed rather than to swelter in a stinking cesspool...