Word: torrid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most intriguing of all are reports that the temperature record set by Chu and since matched by dozens of other researchers has already been surpassed. Some physicists have even reportedsuperconductivity-re lated effects -- though not true superconductivity -- at the torrid heights of 240 K, or -27 degrees F, which is warmer than many wintry nights in North Dakota...
What ever happened to Yvonne De Carlo? You remember her: the torrid brunet who started as a harem handmaiden and by dint of hard work, moxie and what her lover Howard Hughes called a "nice set of lavalieres" became queen of costume dramas in the '40s and '50s. For one thing, she became an autobiographer who, in the great tradition, bares just enough to keep it interesting but not enough to worry the censors. Her offscreen memoirs offer a short course in studio politics and a long list of amours, including Hughes, Robert Taylor, Robert Stack, the Shah of Iran...
Elizondo, a junior, kept up the torrid pace Saturday morning with his third consecutive hat trick in Harvard's narrow 6-5 victory over the University of Massachusetts. Kaiser said that his only disappointment was that the Crimson "didn't beat UMass as badly as [it] should have...
...last is more than a glib question, for 9 1/2 Weeks, the movie everyone is purportedly talking about, has got to be the most torporific cinematic experience in recent memory. And one can thank Adrian Lyne for making the impossible happen: turning a potentially torrid sado-masochistic relationship between a beautiful supermodel (Kim Basinger) and a stud actor (Mickey Rourke) into an emotional and sexual wasteland...
Freshman Sarah Duncan (12 points, six rebounds, three blocks, two steals) extended her string of consecutive free throws to 26, as the entire squad continued its torrid team shooting from the charity stripe. Harvard hit 14 of 15 tries on the evening (93 percent), including 10-for-10 in the second half...