Word: swelters
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...Thus, in a very real way, air conditioning has made possible the ascendancy of computerized civilization. Its cooling protection has given rise not only to moon landings, space shuttles and Skylabs but to the depersonalized punch-cardification of society that regularly gets people hot under the collar even in swelter-proof environments. It has also reshaped the national economy and redistributed political power simply by encouraging the burgeoning of the sultry southerly swatch of the country, profoundly influencing major migration trends of people and industry...
...search went on, the holed-up Bees whiled away the time by watching television soap operas, playing cards, studying the rules of the senate and consuming more than $350 worth of liquor and cold food smuggled into their hideaway by trusted assistants. The ill-prepared band soon began to swelter in the small room. They shed their outer clothes, padded around in underwear, and began to get on each other's nerves. Noted Mauzy: "When you get nine egomaniacs together, all nine want to be chief and no one wants to be an Indian...
...tradition, recipients of honoraries must appear in person to receive their degrees. That requirement prevented then-President Harry S Truman, who preferred the June mugginess of Washington to the swelter of Cambridge, from picking up one of the sheepskins in the late '40s, and also kept General of the Army Douglas MacArthur degree-less during the Korean...
...voracious demands of over worked air conditioners resulted in power failures from New York to Nebraska, and in dozens of new kilowatt-output records for utility companies in between. At the peak of the heat in Memphis, beer sales foamed 40% above normal. Throughout the swelter belt, appliance stores were soon as bare of air conditioners and fans as if they had never been invented. "There comes a point," exulted a Manhattan dealer, "when a person can't stand it any longer-even if he knows it's only going to be for just one more night...
...swelter, and don't, for goodness sake, invest in the new decorator-color shades. You need follow only those two rules, which are actually the one rule, forget about fashions, and you can't go too far wrong in your summer purchases...