Word: torrid
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...Qaeda. "There are three or four isolated pockets of Ansar on very high ground. We're closing in on them from everywhere we can," says an American commando named Mark, who declines to give his rank or surname. The fire coming down from the craggy peak is torrid. Machineguns rattle from above. Ansar snipers pin down troops, their rounds pinging off rocks and buzzing past heads. In return, Kurdish artillery fires in from the flat plains about 2 miles below. Thick whistles sound uncomfortably overhead as a shell passes the Americans' position. It thwacks into the mountainside...
...Bears did not go away easily, fighting back behind the torrid shooting of freshman forward Colleen Kelly. After a nightmare first half in which she scored only two points and misfired on all nine shots from the field, including five three-point attempts, the rookie found her touch in the second half. Kelly connected on four three-pointers and scored 17 of Brown’s 27 points as the Bears turned a 51-34 blowout into a 66-61 thriller with two minutes remaining. Kelly finished the game with 19 points on 6 of 18 shooting...
Minnesota came out of the break with the same torrid shooting that had typified the first half. The Gophers shot 60 percent from the floor in the frame...
With intelligence and humor Raeburn's writing mixes up the highbrow world of 50-cent terminology with colloquialisms like "idjit," for "idiot." Never dry or academic, he often includes personal anecdotes like the absurd story of his torrid affair with "Peaches," the daughter of drug runner. Then he admits to making it all up. Then he says it's true, mixing up life and art as much as any historieta melodrama. Even the design, also by Raeburn, perfectly mimics the look of a typical historieta, right down the paper stock of cover. The man's commitment is total...
...Vast untapped market or no, China is proving vulnerable to the same woes plaguing cellular operators in more developed countries throughout the world, including cell phone-crazy Japan and Hong Kong where once-torrid growth rates have tapered off. Chinese carriers have already joined the parade of telcos worldwide that have slashed investments in their networks. China Mobile, which controls 70% of the market, is cutting capital spending this year by almost 20% to $6.5 billion. The company says it will spend even less, $5.3 billion...