Word: scorch
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...long winter. The balmy days of Spring were deceptive, for the nights were frosty and cold. But at last the burning sun promises to scorch everything in sight for three long months, mists of steam are rising from the rice fields, and the annual Summer war is on again in China...
...recently set all Charlestown by the ears with his 60-mile clip after boasting that he would lead the police a lively dance, is no new phenomenon to Cambridge. For years motorists have driven past the Yard in a manner as bloodthirsty as you please. Recently the tendency to scorch down Massachusetts Avenue with all eight cylinders hitting furiously and the "cut-out" wide open has accelerated perceptibly...
...cheek. It is important, that sleeve. If suave, well-turned, fashionable, this agony and sweat will pass; he will merely remove his abode to a comfortable jail where he can eat, sleep, exercise, read, at leisure. If the sleeve be tattered, he will dance on the wind or scorch in the electric chair, for the rich have their sentences commuted, the poor...
...afternoon at 4 o'clock. Twenty-two men went out under the leadership of Captain Burdette, riding to Chestnut Hill Reservoir at a moderate pace. There the party divided, part returned via Beacon street and the Harvard Bridge at a fast rate, while those who did not care to scorch followed in an easy pace with W. R. Brinckoihoff...