Word: humid
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Start the trail at the end of K St. in Georgetown, following the river’s humid but shady banks. Take an old rail bridge over the C&O canal and towpath (which, for the more adventurous, goes the 184.5 miles to John Brown’s stakeout, Harper’s Ferry W.Va.). After the DC/Maryland line, cut behind the backyards of suburban DC’s swankier ’hoods, and you’ll quickly find yourself at a Honda dealership smack dab in the middle of Bethesda...
...final contest of the season, the Harvard softball team was shut out by Boston College on Friday. Despite the 6-0 score, Harvard refused to go out silently, as the humid air rang with an a capella rendition of “The Hey Song” that carried the team’s spirits, if not the offense. Originally scheduled as a Thursday afternoon doubleheader, the game was rescheduled due to inadequate field conditions. The contest was scoreless until the third inning, when the Eagles jumped on senior hurler Michele McAteer, compiling two runs on four hits before...
...milieu to England, Allen has an ideal setting for class animosity and intrigue in the lightly lethal spirit of Kind Hearts and Coronets. There's sultry chemistry between the leads: Rhys-Meyers, who has the pouty sensuality of a Jude Law left out to spoil, and Johansson, with the humid allure of a classic noir blond. When they get to canoodling and conniving, you won't ask for your money back...
...shotgun is smart. Take its ventilation. The house, perched above the ground on concrete-block piers, has doors in the front and back, windows in all rooms and wood-sheathed walls with no insulation. In a hot, humid clime like Houston's, that "allows air to continually circulate under the house and through the house," says Zamore. "This was the old way of getting AC, before electricity...
...budget, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) administration decided to cut the air conditioning out of the construction plans for the project in order to save money. This move caused uproar amongst both student dancers and the program administrators as they envisioned a future of sweaty practices and humid performances.“There were a series of protests,” Todorova says. “Initially they didn’t settle the matter as nicely as it is settled right now.”However, the outcry persuaded the administration to back down...