Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...preparing a new law restricting the right to strike. Similarly, dissent in a flamboyantly free press may be dampened by proposed criminal penalties for libel. "Gonzalez is following in the old regime's authoritarian tradition," charges editor Ramirez, whose paper has aggressively investigated corruption. The government has also taken heat for a new law that allows detention of anyone failing to carry identity papers and permits the search of private homes without warrants in cases of suspected drug dealing...
During his chairmanship of the Texas War on Drugs Committee, Perot supported several unorthodox police procedures. None has generated more heat than his call for a "civil war" against crime and drugs. In 1988 two different journalists wrote that Perot encouraged Dallas cops to "go in ((to high-crime neighborhoods)), cordon off the whole area, going block by block, looking for guns and drugs." When the stories first appeared, Perot was mum -- a telling silence since no one can recall his having ever let a perceived inaccuracy stand uncorrected. Today, however, with such famous civil libertarians as Dan Quayle predicting...
...Auburn Street, the "Gold Coast" dorms catered to the lifestyles of the children of the rich and famous. Claverly Hall, now annexed housing, and Randolph and Westmorely Halls, which later became part of Adams House, were the late-nineteenth century lap of luxury: spacious rooms, private baths, steam heat...
Summer in the city can be a scary thought to the uninitiated. Oppressive heat and humidity, poor air quality and the stench of city streets combine to create a desperate impulse to escape from the urban jungle to the beach...
...there was a hurricane last year. Yes, temperatures can reach the high nineties. And yes, it can get very, very humid--almost stifling. But most evenings and mornings, the weather is pleasant. A fan will cool off a bedroom, classroom or office. It the heat gets too oppressive, there is an easy antidote--water...