Word: clime
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...everything had gone as planned, I would be leaving for Florida on Saturday. But my friend's sister cracked up the family car. It was nothing major--she didn't even get hurt--but it was enough to force me to spend my vacation in the somewhat less favorable clime of Cambridge...
...this season of snow the fairways of The Country Club, where the Crimson linksters normally cavort in a sunnier clime, look like so many billowing sheets left out to dry. Each day the linksters awake and pine for the white fastness of Brookline to reveal pristine swathes of Merion bluegrass. Each night they gloomily retire...
...pioneer the utmost verge and clime...
...snowstorms, the trees scream in their gnarled bareness, the clouds continue to obscure the fulgent sunshine. Cambridge does not easily shake the remnants of its most brutal season. We become like Gide's immoralist, neglecting our careers, our families, and our lovers in a hedonistic hearkening to a brighter clime and sunnier shore, where mind and body can relax and regenerate...
Covering a string of one-night stands is nothing new for Fischer. "It's like a presidential election campaign transplanted to an exotic clime," he says, recalling his days aboard George McGovern's rattling bus-train-airplane caravan two years ago. "But in this case, the fatigue is compounded by the difference in time zones between the U.S. and the Middle East." Fischer had expected to recover from transatlantic jet lag during the President's stopover in Salzburg, Austria, but it was in Salzburg that Secretary of State Kissinger threatened to resign, and sent the press corps...