Word: torrid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smiles wistfully. He has done his duty, he has built a bridge to the future. His children will cross it, he will not. He will stay in the past, bound there by affection, by habit, by sloth, by congenital dislike of tomorrow, by the siren lure of a torrid, torpid land that makes its children long "voluptuously for death." As the film ends he kneels and, yearning upward to the morning star, prays passionately for death: "O faithful star! When will you give me an appointment less ephemeral than this...
...Janet Dunbar. George Bernard Shaw's love life was strictly postman's knock as one torrid affair after another has been found to be only on paper. But for 45 years he was a testy but loyal husband, she a malleable wife in an oddly successful marriage...
Foreign Interest. Other markets are also fast expanding. Torrid countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America are impressed by the way such hot U.S. cities as Phoenix and Houston (which claims to be the fastest-growing big city in the U.S.) have grown faster by cooling artificially. Exports of air-conditioning equipment will hit $100 million this year. At home, 14% of all new car buyers will spend from $232 to $538 apiece on air conditioners for their autos. Two-thirds of the '63 Cadillacs are air-conditioned, and 12% of all Chevies and Galaxies. Even the churches...
After the Weather Bureau predicts a seven-day heat wave, a revised forecast that the torrid spell will last only six days seems good news of a sort. In that not-as-bad-as-we-expected sense, President Kennedy had some good budget news to announce last week. Only "a few hours ago," he told reporters at his press conference, the Treasury sent him word that the budget deficit for fiscal 1963 (which ended June 30) was only $6.2 billion. That is another hefty deficit to run up in peacetime, but, as Kennedy pointed out with pride...
...neither pretty nor witty, though unmistakably a virgin. He, at 42, was both wag and scalawag, who saw to it that his supposedly torrid love life was the talk of literary London. She was rich and a lady, and loathed the limelight. He was a Socialist and no gentleman, and feasted on celebrity. It seemed on all counts an improbable match; yet by Shavian standards it had a certain compelling illogic. As it turned out, the marriage of George Bernard Shaw and Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend lasted 45 years and was, by any measure, a fairly successful...