Word: humid
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...flat, humid pampa, as the vast Argentine grasslands around the capital are known, there was still plenty of fierce gaucho pride and patriotism. Those sentiments ran deep in the town of Ranchos (pop. 2,500), a tidy cluster of one-story colonial Spanish houses around a square lined with whitewashed plátano trees, located about 120 miles southeast of Buenos Aires. The sons of two local families were on garrison duty in the Falklands. Renato E. Riva, editor of the town weekly Here Is Ranchos, said that "everyone knows when the families receive letters or a postcard." Fund raising...
Particularly impressive was the Crimson's ever-improving, fielding. For the first time this year. Harvard played errorless ball, despite tremendously humid and muddy field conditions...
...uneven brick sidewalks. Crossing Anderson Bridge the chill of the wind hits its peak. Billowing gusts whip down the Charles from the Atlantic, chilling to tears, and anyone crossing the construct stiff-leggedly because his joints feel frozen, wishes to hell he'd never dragged himself out of his humid sheets to face this arctic wasteland...
...underplaying reinforces even while it obscures his effectiveness." Right-wing columnists feel much freer in muting their enthusiasm for the President. In the territory where Rowland Evans and Robert Novak roam-and where seldom is heard a discouraging word about Senator Jesse Helms and other rightists-the atmosphere is humid with intrigues, heavy-breathing innuendoes and indirect quotes ("Important conservative Republicans in Congress, while keeping mum publicly, grumble privately that the President has lost control of his own Administration to moderate forces"). Reagan momentarily retrieved himself to Evans-Novak at Ottawa by proving "rigidly ideological as no other American President...
...scenes in Body Heat are humid and tumid enough, but they are there to serve the symmetry of Kasdan's visual and narrative design. "Ned is caught in limbo, in a dream," Kasdan, 32, told TIME. "I wanted this film to have the intricate structure of a dream, the density of a good novel, and the texture of recognizable people in extraordinary circumstances." In his first film as writer-director (he was the co-author of The Empire Strikes Back and wrote the screenplay for Raiders of the Lost Ark), Kasdan has succeeded handsomely. There is intricacy...