Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cities, as asphalt pavements softened to the consistency of taffy, hundreds of factories and offices began letting the help off early. When they didn't, the help just stayed away. There were 20,000 absentees in Detroit automobile plants on the day after the heat wave began. Attendance at big-league baseball games dwindled. Women went on sitting under beauty-parlor hair dryers (see cut) but only after stripping off half their clothes and donning toga-like sheets...
...heat wave set off all kinds of trouble. In New Haven, Conn, and Milton, Mass., firemen had to turn up and cool off drawbridges which had expanded in the heat. Indianapolis had a plague of Peeping Toms. In Lakeview, Mich., a 16-year-old boy fainted while cutting wood, toppled into a buzz saw, and was killed. By week's end 147 people had died, mostly from heat prostration. New York police, ordered to help keep the city's water consumption down to 1,300,000 gallons a day, were driven wild by wrench-waving gangs who turned...
Efforts to escape the weather were spectacular. Some sought refuge in bars. Highways were jammed by automobiles heading for beaches or mountains. But to perspiring millions there was only one good thing that could be said about the heat wave-it couldn't last forever...
...first game as owner of a pro football team -also known as the Brooklyn Dodgers. All afternoon, ticket cancellations had poured in. Even three of Rickey's own guests begged off. Snorted Branch disgustedly: "Who ever heard of canceling a football game because of a heat wave...
...book is so much better written than "We" that his literary wife Anne (The Wave of the Future) clearly had a hand in editing it, but many Christians may find that Lindbergh's Christianity has a chilling, impersonal, antiseptic quality. "We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Lao-tzu, the teachings of Buddha," he declares. To Lindbergh, science "intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition." Once science has helped mankind to separate "the truths of God . . . from the dogma which surrounds them ... we still have the possibility, here in America, of building...