Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been hardly a breath of the hot, dry, dreaded sirocco, and the harvest promised to be the best in history. But in many fields the crops-wheat, oats, barley-drooped overripe and unharvested, and in some the grain, and the farm buildings too, were burning in the lazy heat...
...temperature of the earth's surface depends largely on two minor constituents of the atmosphere: water vapor and carbon dioxide. They are transparent to the short-wave energy (light and near infrared) that comes from the sun, but opaque to most of the long-wave heat radiation that tries to return to space. This "greenhouse effect" traps heat and makes the earth's surface considerably warmer than it would be if the atmosphere had no water vapor or carbon dioxide in it. An increase in either constituent would make it warmer still. Warm eras in the geological past...
...which affords them not only direct contact with the voter but tame, often planted, questions. When TV shares a general news conference, says New York Times Midwest Correspondent Richard Johnston, the session turns from "an attempt to get at the real news into staged nonsense." Apart from crowding, heat and noise, experienced newsmen bristle at TV's vapid questions, often designed only to get a commentator into...
Trackside dockers were not at all surprised to see the handsome sorrel-topped fellow open a big lead and then ease up. He won breezing. Then they looked at their watches again. In his qualifying heat for the 220-yd. dash at the Atlantic Coast Conference track meet in Durham, N.C. last week, long-legged (6 ft. 2 in., 187 Ibs.) Duke Sophomore Dave Sime (rhymes with skim) had run off a casual 0:20.1 to crack Mel Patton's seven-year-old world record by a tenth of a second. Next day, running into a light head wind...
...junior varsity race was called a dead heat by referees, although it appeared that the Crimson got away late from the stake-beatless starting line. Time for both Cornell and the Crimson...