Word: frosts
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...unusual that Cambridge has yet to have a night below freezing. Past records indicate that, by late October, there are usually several nights that dip below 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Last fall, Cambridge experienced its first snowfall on October 30. “Usually, people expect chilly nights and frost in the morning, but that hasn’t been the case,” Gresaik said. Trang T. Pham ’10, a Boston native, said she has definitely noticed the warmer temperatures. “The past two weeks have been amazing,” says Pham...
...Africa. But now he is stymied, because his war in Iraq has made his grand vision much less attainable, and strengthened the terrorists he abhors. He knows it, but will not publicly admit it. (Last week, when he started a long answer to a question from David Frost on al-Jazeera about Iraq's being "pretty much of a disaster" with the apparent agreement, "It has," his spokesman said no admission was intended.) So now his speeches take strange turns of logic around the hardest questions and are populated with straw men bred for easy defeat. Aides...
...that when she first went to Washington, many in the Democratic establishment didn't take her seriously and opposed her march up the leadership. As she told TIME earlier this year, "They couldn't control me, so they tried to take me down." When her former House colleague Martin Frost was running to head the Democratic National Committee after the 2004 elections, she lobbied against him with a determination that all sides attributed to Frost's challenging her for Democratic leader two years before. Asked about those conflicts, Pelosi refused to discuss them specifically but said, "Anybody who's ever...
...capable of bringing people back into her fold. When Frost's wife, a retired Army major general, was buried in September, he was touched that Pelosi interrupted her frantic campaign schedule to attend the service at Arlington National Cemetery and then walked more than a mile behind the caisson and riderless horse that took Kathryn Frost to her grave. Afterward, Pelosi asked Frost to visit her in her office. She appreciated the work he was doing to help Democratic candidates, she told him, and added that if the party won the House, she would be turning to him for more...
...assume you know more than your characters do, or condescend, even to children. A young girl, Munro's alter ego, tells an affluent employer how, where she comes from, "children walked barefoot until the frost came in order to save on shoe leather" and people ate "dandelion leaves, nothing else, for supper." Just as we're shaking, she admits (to us only) that not all of this is strictly true--and so tells us as much about the sly, storytelling imagination of the girl as about rural circumstances that really were desperate...