Word: inclement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best burrow in the center of the warren. She permits some of them to shelter in the warren, but when does of lower rank have their young, she forces them to dig small nest holes in distant parts of the enclosure, where they are exposed to predators and inclement weather. Few of the outcasts succeed in raising young to maturity...
...Forbush will start in the nets for the Crimson, unless the weather is inclement, in which case sophomore John Adams will probably play. Forbush, with his dislocated finger taped to the digit next to it, cannot put on the gloves Crimson goalies customarily use in cold or wet conditions...
...Jonathan Swift told it, Gulliver once knew a man who had spent eight years on "a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers." In these summer weeks, TIME'S editors deal with the inclemencies in Cuba, the Congo, Moscow and elsewhere, but happily spend part of every week extracting some summer reading to temper the raw air. Some examples in this issue...