Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goal! Association Football is the proper name of an anything-but-proper game. America calls it soccer, and plays it rather poorly. The rest of the world calls it football, and plays it with a passion that rises to fever heat in midsummer, when 16 of the world's top teams assemble to run off the world series of soccer. Last summer the series was held in England, and it produced some of the most brutal and brilliant football of the decade...
Cousy said that the heat at Roberts Center Saturday night and the close halftime score (B.C. 42, Connecticut 40) got his team fired up for the second half, and he's afraid they may have spent themselves. "It takes more than one day to get a team back up," he said...
...heat of impact and the resulting steam penetrated deep into the moon and formed a pool of molten material that later solidified as the crater floor. The hot lunar material and huge chunks of rubble floating in it, says Kuiper, created the volcanic structures that can be seen in Orbiter's picture...
...Challenges from below have really kept the heat on my top players," says Barnaby. "This is a very healthy situation...
...Have any of you ever seen a dead body left standing for four days in that kind of heat and humidity?" he asked. A few of the detectives grunted. They had seen such bodies. They realized that Dorothy could not have died as early as Monday and that Glass had destroyed the detectives' hypothesis...