Word: sweltering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only indication of what slavery might have been like was an overweight woman, whose job it was to swelter next to an authentic kitchen house fire, hanging out the door to cool herself on a 100 degree...
Deep down in the bowels of the Science Center sub-basement lies a computer that may determine whether Harvard will swelter or freeze this winter...
...distributed. In the strife-torn Karamoja province of northeastern Uganda, relief workers wake every morning to find the corpses of malnourished children deposited on their doorsteps. In the Horn of Africa, more than 1.7 million refugees from the unresolved conflicts in Ethiopia's Eritrea, Tigre and Ogaden areas swelter in squalid relief camps, where thousands have already died from malnutrition and a host of hunger-related diseases...