Word: humid
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...first arrived at Harvard, Boston was in the hot cycle, the humid sticky horrible part of its nature. In Boston, people boil half the time and freeze the other half. It is called forced adaptation. The hot cycle is for halters, for lying undressed on your bed trying to shake off the lethargy, and for ice cream cones with jimmies...
...nationally-renowned and world-traveled Radcliffe crew remains, too. Emerging like an unwanted bastard child from the shadow of Harry Parker demigod across the Charles, Radcliffe's crew program began in September and ended in August, traversing the entire eastern seaboard and extending during the humid and oppressive summer months from the fetid, unpalatable and wretched Charles River waters to the ancient, mysterious, and tradition-laden hinterland of Europe: Moscow, Bursting from its oblivion-ridden past with the dazzle of a resurrected phoenix, though never resurrected, not even dead because it was born for the first and only time...
...figures, dressed for the humid summer in silk shirts, knee breeches and buckle shoes, rested against the Monument wall inside the wide circle of flags. One of the figures was the ghost of Thomas Jefferson, that noble idealist who symbolizes the dream of the American Revolution; the other was the ghost of Alexander Hamilton, who, perhaps more than any other single person, was the architect of the modern American system of government...
Ramrod-straight, sober-faced, patrician, calm: he was almost the Hollywood image of an American ambassador. For six exhausting years he exercised more authority than most of his diplomatic colleagues ever dreamed of possessing. Always immaculate, even in Saigon's long, humid afternoons, always self-possessed, even in the face of deliberate snubs from the South Viet Nam government, Ellsworth Bunker, for better or worse, was at the epicenter of the longest and most difficult war in American history...
...most part the life of the ICCS team at Tri Ton is a steady stream of hot, humid days inadequately filled with reading, eating and tedious paper work. A Vietnamese staff of 42 (including twelve guards and numerous cooks and maids) does most of the menial tasks. "We are not accustomed to servants in our country," says one of the Eastern Europeans, "but we can get used to this." He smiles as one of the Vietnamese servant girls pads by in black satin pajamas...