Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more minor yet disturbing point about the novel is the scattering of scatological jokes and references to Coco the dog's bowel movements. In one revolting scene, Coco suffers heat stroke and Reilly must administer a cold-water enema to the dog not once but three times. We are given the details in their full glory, not only about the enemas but of Coco's explosive bowel movements as well. Consider Reilly's deep thoughts about how he must cure Coco's home-sickness: "There are worse things, I suppose, than having to give a dog an ice water enema...
...about 2.5 million times a year and that in only 5% of cases were defenders harmed after they brandished their gun. But such findings were based on narrow surveys whose scope, upon re-examination by gun-control advocates, could easily have been exaggerated. Thus, discerning the benefits of packing heat has largely remained a matter of conscience, not science...
Anyone who saw The English Patient knows that return trips aren't always easy in the desert, and Augustin soon discovers that he has no more idea how to return to Jean-Michel then he does how to find the lost regiment. His heat-stroked, knock-kneed peregrinations around the desert land him into new trouble, especially when he steals water from a Bedouin maiden. The resultant man-hunt sends Augustin hiding in a deep crevasse in a large, barren plateau, but no sooner has he escaped their swords than he runs into a whole new set of daggers, this...
...Starr will turn up the heat on Monica Lewinsky Tuesday when he puts Linda Tripp on the stand. With negotiations deadlocked between Lewinsky's attorneys and Starr's investigation over what the intern would be prepared to concede in her testimony, getting Tripp's testimony on record is a way of boxing in Lewinsky, says TIME Correspondent Eric Pooley. Lewinsky's lawyers have reportedly repeated the offer that she would testify to an affair but not to a cover-up, but that hasn't been enough to persuade Starr to offer immunity. Putting Tripp in the stand - even...
...didn't feel enough pressure," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "NATO's political will is visibly weakening. Greece and Macedonia have come out against military action, and France is insisting on taking the matter before the U.N. That, together with Russia's support, has taken the heat off Milosevic...