21.   In the rough ground and the stifling heat of the body suits, the recovery workers are able to work in only two-hour shifts.

22.   Khusainov was one of the lucky ones Monday, finding a cool place to beat the stifling heat that gripped Southern California.

23.   No reason was given for his collapse, but the stifling heat is believed to be a factor.

24.   People had to wait outdoors for a half-hour or so, often in stifling heat, before there was enough room indoors.

25.   Stifling heat will persist over much of the southern Plains.

26.   Stifling heat and humidity will cover a large area from the southern Plains to the Tennessee and Ohio River Valleys.

27.   The clouds burn off and the stifling heat returns.

28.   The group probed behind Japanese lines, through dense jungle, stifling heat, and outbreaks of disease.

29.   The players suffer through two-a-days in stifling heat.

30.   The opponents were out there, on that nearly empty court, in the stifling heat of the New Jersey summer.