Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rake the land with their multimegatons of atmospheric energy, death tolls are often high. The great Galveston blow of 1900 took 7,000 lives; a "killer hurricane" that struck Florida and the West Indies in 1928 left 4,000 dead in its wake. In India, where the whirling warm-water storms are called "cyclones," 11,000 Bengalis perished in a 1942 assault. Last week, as Hurricane Beulah-the third most powerful blow ever to hit Texas-slammed into the populous Rio Grande Valley and coursed its crushing way inland, only ten deaths were reported-one of them a 15-year...
Following the trend in liner operation-to make up for transatlantic trade lost to jets by offering leisure voyages -the ship will cross the North Atlantic in warm weather, switch to southern waters for winter cruising. From keel up, it is designed to do either in such a way as to return a profit. Which, for all their traditions, is something the Queens did not always...
...from both the plan and its author. F.D.R. nonetheless adhered to his policy of "unconditional surrender," which pleased Morgenthau mightily. But the stigma of extremism still surrounded him when Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945 (though on the evening before F.D.R.'s death, Morgenthau dined with him at Warm Springs and won approval for a postwar book on the plan). Before the summer was out, he had resigned from Truman's Cabinet...
...halt outside the California State Capitol in Sacramento, and out stepped the legislature's guest of honor-dressed in a tattered coat, baggy pants with wide suspenders, and a long, lachrymose mouth curved like an inverted halfmoon. The legislature was honoring him with a special resolution offering "warm gratitude for the pleasure he has brought to the world." Replied Clown Emmett Kelly, 68: "I wish I could hug and kiss every woman here and shake hands with every man." Later, Kelly met his match in another seasoned performer, Governor Ronald Reagan, and, after an exchange of show-bizzy sallies...
Ironically, there has been summer rainfall high over the Northwest. But the air temperature has been raised so much by an abnormally warm summer that the rain has evaporated before hitting earth. Lightning generated by these abortive rainstorms has continued to strike, setting fire to dried underbrush and causing an estimated 80% of the Northwest's fires...