Word: torridly
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Most everyone knows one fact about tugboats: a good tugboat man can hurl a torrid phrase across the water hard enough to make it bounce. But few know another important fact: that the Dutch had a virtual monopoly before the war on deep-sea towing...
Guard Steve Davis held George Gaudrault, the Terrier ace, to a single basket in the first half, but Gaudrault had a torrid second period to lead the visitors with 15 points. For the Crimson, Hauptfuhrer turned in a polished performance at the pivot in the first half when he garnered 12 points, but had trouble in the final twenty minutes with B.U.'s Harry Botsford, an elongated center Coach Russ Peterson sent in to guard the Crimson pivot...
...last week, after a year of being hauled across the nation's front pages, as hero, starry-eyed lover, and writer of torrid prose, Lieut. Colonel Boyington was not so happy. In a San Diego court, seeking to recover $8,000 from an old flame, Mrs. Lucy Malcolmson (TIME, Jan. 21), Pappy drummed his stubby fingers, listened to his letters offered into evidence: "Dearest Cuddle Bum. . . . Baby, what a bundle of love is coming to you. . . . Honey, will you still love me if I never get to be America's leading...
...muffled tread of labor, marching, beat in Southern ears. The C.I.O. was already on crusade (TIME, May 13). This week, in Asheville's cool mountain air, the A.F. of L. mustered its ranks for the torrid tramp through Dixie...
...want to take you on a little tour. . . ." At this point he was drowned out by the rush and thud of a sudden tropical rainstorm. Java's torrid heat made closing the doors unthinkable. Then nearby British artillery opened fire, presumably against Indonesian guerrillas. Sir Archibald, seasoned diplomat though he was, gave up, with a shrug of his shoulders. "I can't compete with this," said he. General Mansergh, not realizing that the thunderous obbligato was being played by his own guns, bellowed: "The Ambassador can't compete with the Almighty-rain and thunder...