Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there," cried Mrs. Harold Messinger, 75-year-old grandmother of Harold Kronk, great-grandmother of the missing baby, pointing to a window through which the smoke streamed in livid grey-green waves. She broke the restraining grasp of the firemen, of Mr. and Mrs. Kronk, dashed up the cinder-hot stairs, bent over the baby's crib. Smoke made her eyes dazzle. She could see nothing in the crib. Was it possible that the baby had been carried out after all? Heat licked at her skirt, singed her arms; terrible heat burrowed in her eyesockets. No, there...
Zarakov turned in a pair of sparkling plays on ground balls to the hot corner and the remainder of the Crimson inner defense gave tight support in the field. The visiting garden trio shone brightly while the infielders were messing up everything they touched. Asher robbed Ellison of a triple in the fourth when he gathered in his long drive after a hard...
Impartial observers opined that a U. S. interpreter of the Senate's meaning would be persona grata at Geneva. He would also be practically certain to find himself in hot water on returning...
...declares: "In the central police station at Belgrade, Jugoslavia, there is in regular use a brazier on which the bodies of prisoners from whom information is wanted are presented to the flames. . . . Needles are stuck into the tongues of suspects and red-hot pins are forced under their nails. . . . There is at hand a special machine designed to squeeze the head until the skull is fractured...
...employed in order to inflict the maximum physical pain without actually killing when information is desired. Beatings are administered until the victims faint and then they are revived with cold water and the process is repeated. Boiling water is poured into the ears. Their nails are pulled out. Burning hot eggs are applied under the arm pits, creating incurable wounds...