Word: sweltering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soho hipsters who swelter and suffocate for it in the Cat's Whisker, the Côte d'Azur or The Two I's, skiffle is brand-new; to jazz critics and non-skiffling professional musicians, it is old-"a bastardized, commercialized form of the real thing," said one critic, "watered down to suit the sickly orange-juice tastes of musical illiterates...
When a legion of doctors gathered in Chicago last week to swelter through the annual convention of the American Medical Association, they had not long to wait for the news that interested them-and their patients-the most. How is the Salk polio vaccine working...
...Harvard I seldom saw joy expressed over learning a foreign language. Students swelter through a few terms of French or German to get rid of an unpleasant language requirement by pulling down 564 (?) on the qualifying exam; and that's the end. The thought of reading a book for pleasure in French or German seldom enters a Harvard man's mind. Everything "worthwhile" has been written in or translated in English, seems to be the general attitude, and it was my own until these past few months...
...manual work in an atmosphere of collective equality looks to them more & more oldfashioned. The slogans have disappeared; their leaders have become government bureaucrats with American cars at their disposal; mailmen and railway clerks seem to be just as valuable to the state as "pioneers" who are willing to swelter in the Negev desert to grow tomatoes which could be more cheaply produced in Galilee. Said one young Israeli: "It seems as if Zionism was a sort of Benzedrine which isn't working any more. And we don't know what to take in its place...
According to Court's calculations, residents of Portland, Me. will shudder in - 28° cold and swelter in 107° heat before another hundred years have passed. New York City's climate will swing between 107° and -16°, while the great plains of the Midwest will reach 115° or higher. Los Angeles, says Court, will have to face an embarrassing 23° chill, but Angelenos can take consolation in the fact that the Florida coast will feel an even colder 9°. Despite the high odds that he is correct, Court, like any experienced weatherman...