Smog, which reached the highest levels in a decade during the torrid 1988 summer, is the ultimate symbol of the law's failure.

Frank's mind went back to that torrid summer when they had melted into intimacy.

From implacable winter one was shifted into torrid summer, with no spring in between.

The experience was more the rule than the exception; so too, as winter sufferings gave way to a torrid summer, was this spectacle:

Unlike July of torrid summers March marches to a host of drummers.

Pest-control experts suspect that the bat invasion was the result of the mild winter and torrid summer last year.

The usual torrid summer, he noted, was mild this year, relatively speaking.

Despite the torrid summer, the former were often outfitted in woolly uniforms.

He said it was possible that because of this year's mild winter and torrid summer, more bats have survived than in recent years.

After four years of torrid summer the thick walls still radiated heat as he passed.