They organize festivals that make the long, sticky summers here tolerable.

On a sticky summer day, children sit on concrete stoops braiding plastic strips or ride their bicycles under the vigilant gaze of parents.

Jonathan Larson's rock musical "Rent" was conceived seven years ago on a sticky summer night.

It was the first cool day of the fall after an awful, sticky summer of blazing heat, repeated heart attacks and kidney failures.

Spring melted into a hot, sticky summer such as came only in the lowlands.

THE long, sticky summer of the chocolate martini is at last behind us.

They walked home slowly through the warm, sticky summer night.

That is due partly to the sticky summer which saw Englishmen dare to walk open-necked in daylight.

September was just another hot, sticky summer month in "New Orleans.

The upside to a hot, sticky summer?