Word: clime
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...England and the Massachusetts clime...
...Audubon aroused as to whether rattlesnakes climb trees. The artist portrayed four meeking birds battling a rattlesnake for possession of the birds' nest and eggs. Immediately the picture was challenged as scientifically inaccurate. In a letter Audubon wrote his wife in 1831, "Know ye all men that Rattlesnake do clime trees...
Schmidt was covering the six second hurdles distance in nearly six seconds earlier this winter outdoors with his sweat clothes on. In the favorable indoor clime of the Garden he may surprise...
...democrats everywhere. Mosley does not flourish in Britain, Huey Long is dead, and France junks its politico-military menaces. In those countries where democracy has struck its roots down deep over the course of centuries, hybrid foreign importations of the Stalin or Hitler variety wither in an unfavorable clime...
...often been remarked by men of letters that a cold and wintry clime tends to discourage the poetic spirit, and that many a melodious bard in embryo has been frozen to an early silence by inclement weather. Shelley, Keats, and Byron, they say, flew like birds from foggy England to a land where pomegranates bloom at Christmas, and so must all young men who seek the favor of the Muses. Be this as it may, however, it is an undoubted and indisputable fact that the lines proudly gleaming in print below were inspired by the pedestrial slushiness Cambridge has suffered...