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Word: torrid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poems, novels, movies and songs. It also inspired University of North Carolina researchers to design a five-year, $18 million survey of 24,000 youngsters in grades 7 through 11 to determine teen attitudes toward sex in the '90s. The study, ranging from the tame (hand holding) to the torrid (sodomy and oral sex), won funding from the National Institutes of Health in May. But last week Secretary of Health Louis Sullivan abruptly canceled the study because he feared it would contradict his stand against casual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington No Sex, We're Republicans | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...offensive hero of the game was Captain Marcel Durand, who had a home run and four RBI's as he continues his torrid hitting...

Author: By Mark W. Onaitis, | Title: Batsmen Quell Quakers, Sink Midshipmen | 4/23/1991 | See Source »

Despite the lack of key run production at times this past weekend against both Army and Brown, the Crimson offense has produced at a torrid pace over the first 20 games, compiling a .334 batting average and a .428 on base average...

Author: By Mark W. Onaitis, | Title: Freshmen Doing Just Fine, Thanks | 4/16/1991 | See Source »

...Harvard hockey team has had its ups and downs this season. The Crimson (10-8 overall, 10-6 ECAC) got off to a torrid 8-2 start in its division and broke into the Albany Times-Union poll as the nation's tenth-ranked team. Harvard then dropped four straight during Reading Period, but changed gears again this past weekend with wins over Army and Princeton...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Roy: Rock-Solid Netminder | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...fraternal twin to Sky in the Bertolucci canon is Last Tango in Paris, his taboo-trashing melodrama about a displaced American (Marlon Brando) who provokes a torrid, cloistered affair with a young Frenchwoman. But the new movie is not about sex -- or even, Bertolucci says, "the impossibility of love. It is about the impossibility of being happy within love. Kit and Port don't realize that the modern couple is an endangered species. Couples are so attacked by the outside world that they create a kind of fusion, a symbiosis. And that takes them, eventually, to a crisis. They look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tragedy Is Their Destination | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

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