Word: sweatier
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...evening. It's got rubber mats on the floor, the kind they put out at skating rinks to keep blades from scratching the linoleum, but here they serve to keep barbells from crashing through the floor. Inside, everything is sweaty, and but for the air-conditioning it would be sweatier still. I knew Bob in grade school, said "hi" when we passed in the hall in high school. He was a funny, pleasant guy, not really smart, thin and wiry, not big enough for most sports, but tough. Mostly he liked to horse around. Not anymore. Now he lives...
...well, seduced families into retreating into houses with closed doors and shut windows, reducing the commonalty of neighborhood life and all but obsoleting the front-porch society whose open casual folkways were an appealing hallmark of a sweatier America. Is it really surprising that the public's often noted withdrawal into self-pursuit and privatism has coincided with the epic spread of air conditioning...
...alleviate the strain of academic work, the Summer School scheduled numerous social events, which worked out less successfully than planned. Friday night mixers in the Union were appropriately crowded, but for some reason the School suddenly discarded informality, and required coats and ties, making the affairs a bit sweatier than one might have wished...