Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just moved on to the next match after Penn," Jellison said. "You just can't look back when you're playing in a [double-elimination] tournament. We just told ourselves that our match against Penn was going to be a warm-up and that we couldn't look at the match before or at the match afterwards. We just had to focus on each match as we played...
Both teams looked lethargic in warm-ups, as they traded yawns before the 11:00 a.m. kick-off. When the whistle blew, Harvard was caught off-guard by a confusing Brown formation...
...that unfortunate? After all, these fuels provide nearly 80% of the energy humans use to keep warm, to light buildings and run computers, to power the cars that get us around, the tractors that plant food, the hospitals that serve our sick. If these fuels were to vanish tomorrow, worldwide chaos would follow and humans would die in the hundreds of millions...
...peasants like Zhenbing's parents to buy coal. Today coal supplies 73% of China's energy, and there is enough beneath the country to last an additional 300 years at current consumption rates. Plainly, that is good news in one respect. Burning coal has made the Chinese people (somewhat) warm in winter for the first time in their history. But multiply Zhenbing's story by China's huge population, and you understand why 9 of the world's 10 most air-polluted cities are found in China and why nearly 1 of every 3 deaths there is linked...
...argument hinges on the Gulf Stream, the ocean current that brings warm surface water north and east and heats Europe. As it travels, some of the water evaporates; what's left is saltier and thus denser. Eventually the dense surface water sinks to the sea bottom, where it flows back southward. And then, near the equator, warm, fresh water from tropical rivers and rain dilutes the salt once again, allowing the water to rise to the surface, warm up and begin flowing north again...