Word: cold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dressed in double-knits, seldom smiling at first, they seemed uneasy recipients of the tributes and radical comradery offered by the Latinos gathered to meet them. They soon showed, however, that the unfamiliar cold weather and the brevity of exposure to this country, rather than a lack of revolutionary ardor or understanding, had caused their initial discomfort. Taking turns addressing the predominantly student audience, they talked at length and in depth about the roles of women and education in the Revolution today. They also quickly dispelled any doubt as to their ability to mix Marxism and religion...
...have demonstrated since, and I will again when the spirit moves me. It can actually be fun, because activists, being ordinary people, have a sense of humor. For example, when a recent antiapartheid march came to a standstill in freezing cold weather, someone in the crowd cried, "Jump if you're not a racist!" Without a second thought, 50 people in the group, including myself, began to jump. I like to think we weren't doing it just to keep warm...
...occasions when characters do philander-notably on Soap-a price is exacted, either in the form of acute mental anguish or Old Testament-style retribution. The conflict between current manners and old-fashioned values is powerfully frustrating; every time a show heats viewers up, it douses them with a cold shower...
...cold-showers-or-no-showers in six entries of Kirkland House that have lacked hot water since last Thursday...
...ALASKA. COLD, sparkling rivers, fast-flowing beneath a deep and cloudless sky. Where moose and caribou abound and where the awesome grizzly can change that with one swipe of his five-inch claws. Land of the soaring, snow-capped mountain, Denali ("The High One" "The Mighty One") which a young Princeton graduate renamed in 1896 when, upon his return from an Alaskan prospecting adventure, he learned that William McKinley had won the Republican nomination for United States President. Alaska. Millions of untrammeled acres of rough, unpolite land, where a man can live in a kind of freedom inconceivable...