Word: torrid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Doti could not keep up the fight's torrid pace, and he like the exhausted fight fans, spent the third round breathing hard and not maintaining the previous round's pace...
Freshman center Karen Smith shot a torrid ten for 15 from the floor and scored 24 points to lead the Harvard women's basketball team to an easy 68-41 victory over Brown last night...
...located between Iran's vast salt desert of Dasht-i-Kavir and the more forbidding Dasht-i-Lut (Naked Desert) to the south, never had a chance. When the tremors began, most residents were at home, eating or enjoying the cool desert breeze that had begun to blow after torrid daytime temperatures. Once the shaking subsided, only six buildings in the town were still recognizable. Even the few newer buildings of steel-beam construction had collapsed...
...typical Louis Auchincloss novel varies as the weather varies from year to year; some are stormier than others, some a degree or two more torrid, but there are few surprises. The Country Cousin, this year's offering, features a cast familiar to readers of his 20 previous works of fiction: the calculating but sympathetic adventuress from a deprived background; an older sponsor scornful of the conventions of New York Society; taciturn, philandering businessmen with ruddy faces; and their thwarted wives, thirsting for uninhibited affairs. No more unpleasant crowd has been assembled since the days of the robber barons...
Glancing away from the torrid spectre of Howard Cosell's face and the microphone extension that had been thrust into his eyes, Sully saw Bill Lee reading from a book of Zen Buddhist riddles...