Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their own, not their servants'. Yet compromise came easier to them. To this day, they have no trouble feeling superior even in a minority setup. Such religious passions as they had, in any case, cooled a long time ago. Southera Protestants have shown no manifest sympathy with their hot-under-the-clerical-collar colleagues up North -who according to Pete Hamill, the American-Ulster-man writer, have no trouble feeling like a minority even when they...
...modest and unassuming. "I think he has handled all the attention like a real big leaguer," says Mets Manager Gil Hodges. But there is one thing that goes to Jones' head: the barrage of pitches from National League hurlers, who are employing the traditional retaliatory weapon against a hot hitter. Cleon is not intimidated. He sprawls in the dirt, dusts himself off, clutches his bat and plants his feet solidly again-while delirious Met fans dream their impossible dreams...
...extreme and uncommon forms, and doctors learn correspondingly little about it in medical school. The great British physiologist Sir Charles Sherrington described pain as "the psychical adjunct of an imperative protective reflex." More simply, pain is what the victim perceives in his mind after he has touched a hot stove-and reflexively pulled back his hand to guard against further burn damage...
...July, but he maintains an office in the basement of the Houghton. In it is a cot, covered with a rug -- "late 17th or early 18th century Imperial rug" -- where he can rest. He has often slept nights there, where it is cool, when the weather outside has been hot. His office is cluttered with pieces of art, papers, photographs, small figures, and chest which he says are "all full of things...
...June of that year, I met Arthur with my bags packed and my Buick roadster, a car of those days, all ready to go. It was a hot day. Arthur looked at the car -- it wasn't a Rolls Royce--and he looked at me and he thought of the long trip. He also had his bags with him, rather large for a Buick Roadster, and he said, "Oh God, how are we going to make...