Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when machine guns are in readiness at a Chicago election, it is not surprising that men caught in the midst of a Chinese civil war should run unpreventable danger. And yet it looks now as though thousands of our troops will risk their lives to revenge the deaths of hot over a dozen of their countrymen...
...other hand, there are--some that are not so hot...
...night in a tent pitched about a mile from Quemados, Cuba, thirsty mosquitoes sang their monotonous whining song; on a cot, Private John R. Kissinger lay awake. It was hot and sticky; he did not slap the stinging pests away. He had volunteered to Dr. Walter Reed, head of the U. S. Yellow Fever Commission, to subject himself to the bites of mosquitoes that had sucked the blood of men ill with the fever; in this way the Commission hoped to find whether the mosquito carried the deadly germ.* He made the offer knowing that his chances for life were...
...think it hot, today? You should feel it in Calcutta! Most people last only five years in India. That was the length of my appointment?long enough! For my duty as Advocate General of Bengal was to act as a sort of personal court of final appeal. Perhaps the greatest single problem which cropped up to face me was whether or not to prosecute Mahatma Gandhi. . . . Will you gentlemen have more...
...tribesmen swarmed over the wrecked plane, dug into the batteries for gold and silver, got nothing but a bad electric shock. From the aviators they took money and watches, cut the soles of their shoes for concealed gold. Later they marched the Major and his companions barefooted over the hot sands for many hours, hid them, in sacks on camels' backs while tribesmen shot at planes sent in search of the flyers. But now he felt fine. Soon he would try again to fly home from so gracious and hospitable Spain...