Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Howdy, you've reached the Middle Georgia Heat Wave, Lars Anderson here," he announced. "What the hell...
Then came mad panic. In the scramble to escape, hundreds were crushed under the frantic feet of their co-religionists; others collapsed in the airless heat. "It was terrible," an Arab survivor told Saudi television. "When one stumbled, scores trampled him and hundreds fell on top of them." According to Islamic teachings, to die while on the hajj ensures immediate ascension to heaven. On that day 1,426 Muslims earned the privilege...
...whether the accommodations are cramped or commodious, on every railway a different America floats past the window. The paths of trains are like those roads that author William Least Heat Moon called "blue highways," the forgotten byways that lead into the heart -- and the soul -- of the country. Such a trip unreels a documentary about smokestack America that pans across abandoned factories, stockyards, waste dumps and prisons. It is also a voyeuristic voyage more real than Roseanne, crazier than A Current Affair. For the train catches the nation in its undershirt, unguarded in its backyard after work, quarreling amid rusting...
Yesterday's welcoming ceremonies at Rice werecut short because of intense heat, despite thefact that the university installed special airconditioners in an open field to cool the leaders...
Although the heat may have disrupted today'sactivities, the city of Houston is making nosecret of the fact that it is hot. Houstonofficials are looking to the summit to revive acity devastated by the oil bust of the early1980s, and have promoted a new slogan--"Houston'sHot"--to prove...