Word: torrid
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Brown (0-2) extended its torrid losing streak to 11 straight dual-meet defeats going back to last season, while the Crimson upped its record to 3-0 in EISL competition. Reasonably enough, Harvard did not expect too much of a challenge from the Bruins, to whom it had not lost to in the last three years...
...debate was torrid, the issue momentous. But even in the midst of last week's parliamentary debate over the country's economic destiny, many Soviet lawmakers could not tear their eyes from the newspapers in their laps. Here was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the exiled dissident, writing a polemic about the nation's current crisis in the pages of nothing less than Komsomolskaya Pravda (circ. 22 million), the mouthpiece of the Young Communist League. The 16,000-word text was also printed in Literaturnaya Gazeta (4.5 million), which only five years ago berated its author as "that vile scum of a traitor...
...Eagles' Pam Piorkowski--the region's fifth-ranked player--then downed a torrid Jamie Henikoff in an atypical 6-2, 6-4 victory in second singles...
America has perpetrated countless pop fads on Europe, so now the Continent is getting its revenge. They call it lambada, the trendiest dance since the hustle. A torrid thigh-to-thigh two-step that swept across Europe last year after being imported from Brazil by French music promoter Jean Karakos, lambada and its Afro-Latin sound have hit America in a hurricane of hype. World Beat, an album by the lambada band Kaoma, has sold 600,000 copies. Two hurriedly produced lambada movies opened this month; five more such flicks are on the way. The commercialization has just begun. Retailers...
...that game, Sandy Springer led the Crimson with 17 points, while Dina Hadrick came off the bench to net 12 points. Wambach dished off nine assists. Overall, Harvard shot a torrid 61 percent-from the field to capture the victory...