Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...adamancy in sticking to his Maine vacation (the tense, almost angry flailing at golf balls, the powerboat Fidelity bucking out of harbor, a war getting organized by cellular phone) contributed to an air of the surreal. So did the alien theater of war: the Saudi peninsula's shimmering heat, its lunar landscapes, its customs and culture out of other centuries altogether...
...poison gas would be contrary to conventions ratified by virtually every nation in the world (including Iraq). Yet as American and Egyptian troops tried on their chemical-warfare suits in 110 degrees heat -- and as civilians as far away as Tel Aviv clamored for similar protective gear -- it was impossible to forget that Saddam Hussein had used poison gas against Iran and against his own people. Nor could anyone be unaware that some in the U.S. were arguing for eye-for-an-eye retaliation with chemical, perhaps even nuclear, weapons. King Hussein of Jordan, who managed to become trapped between...
...moving fighting forces into the field and supplying their gargantuan needs. When the U.S. decided last week to draw "a line in the sand" of the Arabian Peninsula, it took on an immense logistical task. Keeping troops supplied with water in the desert's 120 degrees heat will be as vital as keeping them supplied with ammunition...
Without adequate drainage, continuous irrigation gradually destroys a piece of land -- and any streams or rivers near it -- through a process called salinization. As the heat of the sun evaporates irrigation water, salts are left behind. The water also flushes additional salts out of soils with high concentrations of minerals, leaving them to dry on the surface into a cakelike residue or to dissolve in groundwater and poison plant roots...
...dozen shows with a cumulative annual audience of nearly 5 million. Most of these actors, and the bulk of their counterparts at other theme parks, appear in five or six daily performances of a half-hour or more, six days a week, often outdoors in 90 degrees heat, with no showers backstage. They develop discipline and stamina. Even harder, they learn to keep fresh a routine they are performing for the 300th time but that spectators are seeing as if brand new -- all for about $300 a week. (Cruise ships pay better but often impose double duty, asking performers...