The completed spec is a scorcher when living up to its full potential, too.

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But my real worry was the heat: My chosen afternoon turned out to be a scorcher 92 degrees and humid.

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Scorcher is not so much selling music as using music to sell.

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Scorcher, a rapper from London who recently signed his first record deal, set up a clothing label even before he made his first video.

ECONOMIST: What's working in music: Having a ball | The

The weather, so balmy in June, reverted to rainy type in July, confounding predictions of a prolonged scorcher, leaving the meteorologists red-faced and the skin of stay-at-home Britons pallid.

ECONOMIST: Britain��s long, hot-and-cold summer of uncertainty

We had a scorcher in Philadelphia today with temps hitting nearly 100 degrees (I think the official high was 96 degrees), marking the end (we hope) of a heat wave that saw schools close early.

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With 19 minutes left, Coventry should have got back in the game but Leon Best headed over the bar from six yards out but Matt Hollandalso smashed a 30-yard scorcher against the crossbar at the other end.

BBC: Charlton 4-1 Coventry