Word: clime
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...Today Antarctica is synonymous with ice; 98% of its surface is covered by ice. But this was not always the case. Even though the landmass that constitutes Antarctica has occupied a polar position for well over 100 million years, for much of that time it enjoyed a rather pleasant clime. During the Cretaceous Period, for example, areas that today are obscured by ice were covered with forests of conifers and beech, and through them, scientists believe, roamed a variety of animals, including reptiles and dinosaurs...
Every year, two special television events consistently bring in the highest ratings. The first, of course, is the Super Bowl, that great wintry spectacle of grinding machismo. The second, however, mandates a costume of the most elegant (and swankiest) proportion and is held in the perpetually sunny clime of Los Angeles. I speak, naturally, of the Academy Awards...
They dip into such topics as credit card debt, cardiac health and the hazards of transporting a gravy boat to a foreign clime. Their talk is not polemical, deep or even outrageously funny. It's just comfy, lively chat, the kind you'd expect from sisters whose lives are quite different--a single career woman, a divorce, a wife who has followed her husband to Thailand and dials into the conversation via a satellite uplink (hence the name)--and yet who share an effortless, chip-proof familiarity. Perhaps because there are so many women, and quite...
...South before you think North, before you think East," Zettel wrote in an e-mail message. "The South connotes a more leisurely, less stressful lifestyle. Southerners are generally perceived as more friendly and welcoming... Even intellectual matters and pursuits...play out in a more relaxed manner in a Southern clime...