Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Huich'on kindergarten in central North Korea, the starving children appear almost skeletal. Nurses in Pyongyang hospitals can see their breath because the buildings have no heat. U.S. Congressman Tony Hall, on a visit to North Korea, spotted a teenage girl, so malnourished she looked like a six- or seven-year-old, picking weeds and grass to eat. Emergency food shipments from China, South Korea, Europe and the U.S. are being rushed in, but U.S. intelligence agencies warn that not enough will arrive in time to prevent tens of thousands from starving to death. North Korea, says World Food Program...
...conference came one day after the couple finally submitted to separate police interrogations. The Ramseys had heaped suspicion upon themselves by refusing to agree to formal interviews with police and by their seeming refusal to offer much help in the search for the killer. After police turned up the heat in April by telling reporters that the murder probe was now focusing on the parents, John and Patsy Ramsey finally agreed to be questioned. Mrs. Ramsey was interrogated for six hours and Mr. Ramsey for two hours Wednesday. Incredibly, the parents said they initially refused to grant formal interviews...
...Malone is beginning to take heat for his work on the lottery, as well...
...Izzi's tangle of fiction and reality does not end there. A Matter of Honor threads an intricate and somewhat overstuffed story of two detectives, partners, one black, one white, through the sweltering heat and gathering racial tensions of a deadly Chicago summer. The novel works as a kind of Venality Fair--it's a shade better than pretty good--mainly because even the author's minor characters--sleazy black gang bangers and brain-fried white neo-Nazis--are expertly sketched. And the two detectives are well drawn, without much Butch-and-Sundance romanticizing. They like and respect each other...
...when I visited the store on a frigid January day. "In the winter, it's the hard core ice cream eaters, not the fair weather fans." The store makes most of its money during the warm summer months when ice cream can be interpreted as a respite from the heat. However, in Boston, which Lewis describes as "a mecca for ice cream," it seems that there are a few others like me out there. "Even on a day when the temperature is below zero, there are people. There was someone [who had been] waiting for 10 minutes when we opened...