21.   Facing food in this oppressive heat is no easy thing.

22.   Just when the oppressive heat of summer lessens and one yearns to be outdoors, we seal the windows and prepare for our antihistamine-induced autumn daze.

23.   Kerry Collins said there have been days when, after a round of golf in oppressive heat, he has imagined how refreshing a cold beer would taste.

24.   Much of the nation was suffering the oppressive heat.

25.   On this day, it was Italy that looked like one of the best teams in the world in spite of typically oppressive heat in New Jersey.

26.   Oppressive heat and humidity will continue for one more day across the Northeast before a cool front slowly sags southward into the region.

27.   Oppressive heat and humidity will cover a large area from the central and southern Plains to the upper Midwest.

28.   Oppressive heat and humidity will grip the Mississippi Valley again Saturday as breezes from the southwest transport moisture-laden air from the Gulf of Mexico.

29.   Oppressive heat will persist in much of the Plains.

30.   Oppressive heat will grip the northern Plains on Saturday as a warm high-pressure system strengthens across interior North America.