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...determined to not make eye contact with my subject—and usually, archnemesis—the sun. A hotline had been established in Hong Kong for the symptoms of eye damage—blurred vision, holes in visual field, afterimages, and reddened perception. Most people didn??€™t own the proper solar filters for dealing with the situation. If you look straight at the sun during a partial eclipse—like the 75 percent one that occurred in Hong Kong on July 22—the sun’s rays can penetrate and photochemically change...
...That was why hordes of people were coming to these solar observation parties, to get a quick look through a telescope or pick up some free eclipse shades and gaze at the sun, rather than being limited to stolen glances. Squinting and looking down, I probably didn??€™t make a very compelling image of the proverbial intrepid reporter. I saw the line winding around the space museum—the line I was supposed to be on an hour ago—and groaned...
...grueling work, which lasted two days in total, I felt that invoking T. I. A. to cope with the situation—which the project leader did—was entirely reasonable. After all, no one would have had the right to complain that a shiny, yellow Caterpillar bulldozer didn??€™t pull up to the swamp alongside dump trucks and vacuum-powered electric hoses to get the job done within a few hours...
...FRANCISCO, Calif.—Something that definitely didn??€™t occur to me until I was walking around AT&T Park before Sunday’s Giants game was just how cold the Bay Area is. It’s the beginning of August, probably the hottest time of the year in most places, and the weather report called for a high of 59. But just as I was about to discount both Bay Area teams for this failing of Mother Nature, the morning fog burned off, the sun came out, and it turned into a beautiful...
...games. During Rickey Henderson’s pregame ceremony, they played music straight out of Pirates of the Caribbean and as the A’s took the field at the top of the game, some eerie Nancy Sinatra-like song piped in through the speakers. Didn??€™t really scream “Play ball...