Word: torrid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...torrid race for the Ivy League championship began to become untangled last night. Penn scored a 67-53 over Columbia, and Cornell sprang a mild upset by defeating Princeton, 86 to 77. That leaves Penn in undisputed possession of first place with a 9-1 mark; Columbia, Cornell, and Princeton are all 8-2. Tonight, Cornell plays at Penn and Princeton hosts Columbia. Penn should win, and that should give the Quakers a moderately solid lead in the Ivy race...
...torrid Ivy League race should begin to be untangled this weekend. Tonight Columbia (8-1) plays at Penn (8-1) and Cornell (7-2) meets Princeton...
Furthermore, Cornell is in the thick of a torrid Ivy League race, and simply can't afford to suffer a letdown against a second-division team. The Big Red has a 5-2 mark in league play; Penn. Princeton, and Cornell are all tied for first with 6-1 marks...
...betrayals: by friendship (in the person of an ancient coot in a Confederate uniform); by wealth (in the form of an alcoholic hag and her fluttery entourage of butterfly boys); by art (as represented by a seedy writer-painter couple); and by sex in the nymphomaniacal guise of a torrid pop-swinger (Jennifer West). They kill Malcolm with corruption...
...rename his country Bechuana and set about the enormous tasks ahead. His work is cut out for him. Texas-size, with a population of only 542,000, the country is mostly salt pan and desert, barely suitable for cattle grazing. In the east, near Francistown, Serowe and the tiny, torrid new capital of Gaberones, rainfall permits some crops, mostly maize, sorghum, cowpeas, pumpkins and tobacco. Only a single railroad, 394 miles long, and a highway connect the north and south of the protectorate. East-west roads branch off this central spine, but typically peter out into sand within...