Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extremely frustrating--we feel for these people. He knows them as people and thinks twice about sending them here," says Paolillo, gesturing toward the city's cell block. Because of a state law to prevent suicides, the bars in the room are covered with plexiglass, creating a suffocating heat that lingers in the lungs even in the air-condiditioned hallway...
...household budgets shudder when the price of gasoline rises by a dime a gallon, whose sons and daughters join the Army to pay for their schooling, whose jobs are most vulnerable when the economy crawls toward recession. Savings and security are unaffordable luxuries; so are adequate health care, sufficient heat in the winter, a meal in a restaurant, a night at the movies...
That leaves families worrying constantly about priorities. Heat or cough medicine? Books for school or shoes? "You lead a simple life," says Father John Seymour of Our Lady of Victory Church in Compton, Calif., where many of his parishioners face the hard choices every day. "Your main recreation is television. You eat a lot of rice, pasta, potatoes and beans, maybe some green vegetables. You take the bus, or you kind of carpool it, riding with someone and helping with the gas. If you're pregnant, you don't begin prenatal care until your seventh, eighth or ninth month, because...
...photographer Dennis Brack, the second most remarkable aspect of taking pictures of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia has been the 115 degrees heat. "I have sunburn on top of my sunburn," jokes Brack, who dutifully applies SPF 39 sun block every hour to little avail. "My warmest situation so far was taking pictures in the exhaust of an F-15 jet under the midday sun. It was so hot, the rubber grips around my lenses started to melt off." The heat and dust have already claimed one of Brack's cameras, and he is well into every piece of backup...
...soldiers from the 82nd Airborne's Second Infantry Brigade are in their third day of training in the desert heat. Before their arrival they had been warned that they might go into combat as soon as their planes landed. Now they are finding it hard to adjust to the waiting game as U.S. troops stream into the country and Iraq's army settles into defensive positions in Kuwait. "A lot of my men feel like we're wasting time," says the sergeant. "That's the basic consensus: Let's get the show on the road or get out of here...