Word: torrid
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...plus side, at least October is over. After starting out the month on a torrid pace by reeling off seven straight wins, the Crimson experienced an utter reversal of fortune, losing its next four games, three by a single goal. In just one week, Harvard has gone from standing a good chance of receiving a first round bye in the postseason tourney to the unenviable position of being on the bubble...
...Like the GDP. The Dow ran up 210 points on the simple news that in the third quarter, the economy cooled much faster than anybody expected, notching a 2.7 percent annual growth rate, the lowest since spring 1999. That's down from the torrid 5.6 percent in the second quarter and almost a full percentage point lower than what analysts had expected. For a change, it was the kind of surprise they like...
...list of hurlers whose careers were cut short by blown-out arms is long. In the U.S., a starting pitcher typically throws between 100 and 140 pitches a game. In Japan, 200-pitch games are not unheard of. The wear-and-tear on Matsuzaka's arm from his torrid schedule as a high-schooler might well come back to haunt him. "I worry about his future because he throws a lot compared to American pitchers and even other Japanese pitchers," says Isao Ojimi, a former pro player in Japan who now scouts talent for the New York Mets. "Managers...
While dating his cheerleading love interest, the ubiquitous Sarah Michelle Gellar ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), Alan (Grenier) embraces a hedonistic Harvard lifestyle and starts a torrid affair with his philosophy professor...
...upperclass student. I felt like the coolest first-year I'd met. My fatal misstep, however, came later that week when, in a roomful of his friends, I snuggled up to him on a couch and took his hand without a second thought. After a second torrid evening, he called me out into the Eliot courtyard to talk--this wasn't going to work out. I stared moodily out the gate at the Charles and cried...