sunstroke
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sunstrokes
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One U.S. labor official, according to Ngai, reported that 88 deportees died of heat exhaustion or sunstroke in July of 1955 after being dropped off in the border city of Mexicali in 112°F July heat.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2024
“I didn’t know what sunstroke was, and nobody had told me what could happen.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
On the first day, said Mr. Gao, 39, he had sunstroke.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2023
At most science institutions, safety lectures for field researchers and support staff teach how to avoid sunstroke, deploy emergency flares, and handle variables such as wild animals and flammable liquids.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 10, 2023
They both look at me like I’ve got sunstroke.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
Still, one gets restless in weather like this, when human beings are dropping down dead in the streets of a city close by in dozens, from sunstrokes.
From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Many of these were reported as sunstrokes, owing to men exposing themselves to the sun with pounded and battered heads.
From The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873 by Joel Tyler Headley
Our men suffered terribly from the heat, and some received sunstrokes.
From An Original Belle by Edward Payson Roe
Before this was put up, they say that workmen used to fall dead with sunstrokes, on the wharves.
From To Cuba and Back by Richard Henry Dana
That’s how so many of them get sunstrokes, and are ruined for life.”
From Diary of a Pilgrimage by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
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