Word: heatedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Students said they also appreciated Weld's improved climate control, according to Rosanna F. Gomez '96. "The heat makes a big difference," she said...
...suddenly, an enormous amount is riding on it. NBC, the onetime kingpin of prime time, has seen its fortunes turn sour almost overnight. Its biggest hit of the '80s, The Cosby Show, took early retirement last spring, while several other veterans -- The Golden Girls, Matlock and In the Heat of the Night -- were given their unconditional release. (All were later picked up by rivals.) The network's last remaining Top 10 hit, Cheers, will call it quits at the end of this season; highly regarded younger shows like Seinfeld have not lived up to ratings expectations; and with the loss...
...energy in the form of speeding neutrons rather than an explosive blast. The neutron warhead would be detonated when the missile approached to about a distance equal to the radius of the asteroid. "The neutrons penetrate deeply into the near side of the asteroid," Canavan explains. "They heat and vaporize the material, which expands at a high velocity and blows out of the side of the asteroid," thrusting it into a new, non-threatening orbit...
Ellcock was homeless himself until four years ago and recalls sleeping in unlocked cars and on heat grates in order to escape the cold. "A couple of times I almost froze, got frostbite. It was real brutal, real hard...
HUMONGOUS GENERALIZATION OF the week: Hollywood movies are masculine; foreign and independent films are feminine. Most Hollywood efforts -- the action movies, comedies, domestic thrillers -- come at you like a teenage boy in heat, working hard to dazzle with energy and patter when they are not being brutal and obscene. What you often end up sitting through is two hours of guys gunning their engines. John Sayles' film Passion Fish has a line about this tendency. When the heroine is told that a suitor might take her for a ride in his refurbished boat, she notes wryly, "Men like that...