单词 | hot, long summer |
释义 | > as lemmashot, long summer P2. long, hot summer (also occasionally hot, long summer): used with reference to various summers of the 1960s during which race riots took place in the United States, esp. the summer of 1967. Also more generally with reference to any summer characterized by widespread rioting or public dissent.Adoption of the phrase may partly have been inspired by the title of the film The Long, Hot Summer (1958), a study of simmering tensions in a (white) Mississippi family. ΚΠ 1963 Spectator 5 July 5/3 The long, hot summer... All our attention is diverted because the Negro goes on enforcing his own informal history. 1976 R. Sale Seattle, Past to Present (1978) vii. 216 The ‘long, hot summer’ that black and white civil rights leaders had warned of came. 1983 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 1 Apr. Europe's expected long hot summer of nuclear protest got under way with massive demonstrations in Britain and West Germany Friday. 1997 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 5 July a9 Business groups..promised ‘a very hot, long summer’ Friday as they unveiled plans to step up their campaign against the bill. 2012 T. Wendel Summer '68 (2013) iii. 68 During the long hot summer of 1967, just about anything attempted by authority had struck the wrong chord. < as lemmas |
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