It drew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on doors of perfect strangers, and from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized and proved that more than two centuries later a government of the people, by the people, and for the people has not perished from the Earth.
But I remember it was a scorching summer day and I was driving up a rutted dirt road, nothing on either side but sunbaked bushes, gnarled, spiny tree trunks, and dried grass like pale straw.
Under the scorching sun, an old man sat by the bank staring at the buoy on the river.
Then the sun broke through the clouds and memories of summer's scorching hot days flashed through my mind.
Thu I wither notlike you in the scorching sun of cruel realities.
It was a scorching hot summer day.
This year, scorching heat has been festering in Australia's red center since December and is driving a veritable tsunami of heat across inland Australia towards the highly populated eastern coasts.
