Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hot, hot, hot inside the classroom in Brentwood, Long Island, about 90 muggy degrees. Nearly 300 men and women, clad in shorts, T shirts, jogging shoes and jeans -- a few with service revolvers in ankle holsters -- hunch against tables piled with books. Some affect a jaunty air, but most wear the look of the condemned. These are New York City police officers battling through a seven-hour cram session that covers everything from the penal code to traffic regulations. They are preparing for exams to determine who will be promoted and who will...
...said Gilman. That was caused by a split in the jet stream, which usually carries storms across California into the Midwest, sucking moisture up from the Gulf. But this year its larger current swung north to Hudson Bay, its lesser branch south to Mexico, leaving the midlands arid and hot. Now, after nearly three months of deprivation, the great Missouri-Mississippi watershed has fused into a giant arc of aching thirst. The heartland bower of James Whitcomb Riley and Edgar Lee Masters, of Indiana and Illinois, has received less than half the normal spring rainfall. The soft night lawns...
...even some of that is shot." He watches the fields particularly in the evening, when the light is softer. "The corn is beginning to turn white," he said. "The leaves are curling. If there is no rain, if the wind keeps blowing like this, if it stays so hot, all the corn will be lost...
...tons of squid < in infinite variations: crisply fried; elegantly sauteed in olive oil with tomatoes and green peppers, then flambeed with brandy; grilled on skewers as Thai satays, Japanese teriyaki or Middle Eastern kabobs; filling empanadas, the South American pastry turnovers, and Tex-Mex burritos; marinated with hot chili peppers in Latin-American seviche; sprinkled atop pizza, pasta and the Italian deep-fried pastry here called speengies but more authentically known as sfingi; formed into "meatballs" and burgers or stirred into a creamy, vegetable-flecked chowder. And more...
However, if Rowan merely had reflected on his own past positions, he would have recognized that his recent action points not to the weakness of the case for gun control, but rather to its validity. For once again, the mere presence of a gun can lead not just a hot-tempered youth or a bitter spouse, but even someone as rational and intelligent as Rowan is, to pull the trigger irrationally...