Word: torrid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transmitting valuable data even before the astronauts left the moon. For the time being, earth controllers commanded two of the instruments-designed to investigate any traces of lunar atmosphere-to go into a stand-by mode; that would allow earthly gases left within them to bake out during the torrid two-week-long lunar day (maximum temperature: 240° F.). Once freed of these vapors, which interfere with their high-voltage power supply, the instruments will be switched into full operation...
Then came a key play. Down two points, Dover faked Dotson onto the floor and drove underneath, only to miss the layup. McMillian quickly tallied a bucket to make it four points and then hit two free throws after a strange foul called on Gallagher during a torrid fight for a rebound of a missed Harvard shot...
After the opening minutes when it set a torrid pace but could not score, the Crimson lapsed into a reckless, careless style of play, looking for the easy score...
...star No. 1, there is no question of having to get along with people." In Spain filming 100 Rifles, a sex-and-violence western, the two stars were not even speaking to each other. "There was a real chemical thing going at first," recalls Raquel. But after a torrid love scene, the chemistry stopped. Brown refuses to discuss the matter. Says Raquel: "I don t know what happened after that. At table, I remember asking for the salt one day and hearing 'Get it yourself; its not black.' Jim just sort of withdrew into himself...
...lavatory of his filthy flat. Enderby is a Mad Magazine version of Leopold Bloom; he sentimentally feeds gulls and innocently offends all the local pub personnel. Suddenly offered an obscure prize for his poetry, Enderby borrows a suit from a friendly chef in return for writing a cycle of torrid love poetry to the barmaid the chef is wooing. At the prize ceremonies Enderby is courted by Vesta Bainbridge, features editor of a women's magazine and unscrupulous conversion-monger for the Catholic Church. Soon after, Vesta marries the hapless Enderby and carts him off to the Holy City, where...