Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instance, the names of our streams indicate their character. Rapid River runs through Rapid City. Fall River, originally the River of Falling Water, flows through Hot Springs. Other similarly fast streams have their names preempted by historical events...
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...food, having begun a hunger strike which, in Mr. Sacco's case, was still continuing at last reports. Hunger eventually conquered Mr. Vanzetti's starvation program. During the first two days of their abstention from food, Prison Warden William Hendry inclined toward the belief that only the hot weather and lack of exercise were responsible for the prisoners' fasting. By the third day, however, this hypothesis became rather untenable, and discussion turned to the possibility of sending the prisoners to the prison hospital and there forcibly feeding them. It was recalled that in 1923 Mr. Sacco went...
...through the gale at 100 miles an hour?finally sighting and circling over Ocotal. "Click" went the small, simple mechanism of his bomb release. Far below, masses of men became suddenly red, formless and conglomerate. Within half an hour a flock of black vultures were coasting down through the hot, cruel...
...ship more homelike. Waldemar Karl Badke, towheaded German, "donkeyman,"* got on especially well with her. Every one aboard, including Mr. Battice, knew that they were great friends. Mrs. Battice even drew the fact to her husband's attention, one day when Africa was still many dawns beyond the hot horizon. Mr. Battice strolled on deck to ask a shipmate for the loan of a razor...