Word: sweats
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...Dirty, greasy, sweat-soaked garments make the wearer not only gamey but cold...
...Skin must be kept down to 90° F, or it begins to sweat. Frozen sweat not only reduces insulation but adds as much as four pounds to a man's shirt...
...afternoon wore on the motor-makers began to sweat: they had thrown their overcoats on a window ledge, accidentally covered up a ventilating outlet. As the delegates melted in the heat, the nation's hope for immediate conversion melted...
...third day of the war, at lunch time, radio stations on the Atlantic seaboard had to grapple with a scare report (see p. 61). In a sweat of swift thinking ("hardest thing I ever had to do") CBS's News Chief Paul White decided that until it was more than an unconfirmed rumor, the cause of the alert should be treated as such. He called up NBC's News Chief Abe Schechter, reached an internetwork understanding. Slight inducement to panic thereafter came from CBS or NBC announcers...
Soon there was projected against the night of France the flames of physically burning London. To the fact of Britain's violent destruction and heroic resistance men tried to readjust themselves in books like Margaret Kennedy's Where Stands a Winged Sentry ($2); Blood, Sweat and Tears, Winston Churchill's Speeches ($3); John Strachey's Digging for Mrs. Miller...