Word: humid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Playing in humid, mid-90's weather Friday morning, Lundy played well in the first set of his match with Ismaiol, but then fell victim to the Pakistani's steady game, losing...
...attention, swathed in a tentlike brown tunic and baggy sweat pants. The rehearsal piano pounds away, and Howard's piercing voice ("Now up, now up, now up ") guides some 90 students through a long series of stretches and drills. Morning sunlight pours through the tall windows; the air is humid with exertion. Gelsey moves among the stretching, straining bodies, her eyes dense with concentration. "The floor could collapse," says Howard, "and she would not notice." She works in counterpoint to the other dancers, seeming to sense a rhythm in his commands meant especially for her. Howard knows what...
Experimental winged-bean plantings are now under way in some 50 countries, partly as a result of a widely distributed report by the National Academy of Sciences that concluded: "The winged bean appears to have great potential for easing the problem of protein malnutrition throughout the humid tropics." But for all their enthusiasm, scientists admit that to begin widespread growth and use of the plant where it has never been grown before may involve obstacles, botanical and otherwise. Indeed, so perverse are human beings that it may prove a difficult thing to change eating habits. As the University of Florida...
Pereira figures that similar buildings would be practical almost anywhere in the U.S., except in very humid regions. In fact, he often opens the windows in the five-story Los Angeles building where he works. Says Pereira: "I'm a fresh-air fiend...
...coeds help him keep naughty Kepesh at bay; nice Kepesh becomes a perceptive student of Anton Chekhov's "romantic disillusionment" and wins a Fulbright scholarship. In London, disaster - and on the other hand, bliss. Kepesh takes up lodgings with two Swedish girls, one of whom outstrips his most humid sexual fantasies...