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After climbing into the windows of Crag and sleeping huddled around the stove, the party, except for one who had received mild frostbite the day before, left at the crack of dawn in sub-zero temperatures to conquer Adams. Although the sky was clear on their side of the range, the clouds sweeping up the eastern slopes quickly locked in the mountain as they neared the final thousand feet of their climb. The ensuing blizzard completely obliterated any landmarks which they could have followed and any chance that they could reach the top. Now they only wanted to get safely...
...criticism of his indulgences ("Joan Baez shows up at concerts in jeans and sandals-the only difference between her and me is that I own up to the money"). Other aspects of his image please him less, like never being allowed to be seen in public drinking anything as mild as a beer. "It's funny, because people think I'm drunk when I go onstage. But my musicians and I can't destroy the myth, so we act drunk...
...desolate scene, a nightly occurrence since late September, could be a dramatic forecast of the future for other cities in the U.S., Europe and Japan. The Pacific Northwest is in the grip of a serious energy crisis, ironically brought on by the same mild weather that allowed the remainder of the nation to slip relatively easily through last winter's fuel-oil shortage. Because snow did not build up in normal amounts in the Cascades and Canadian Rockies, this spring's runoff into the hydroelectric reservoirs along the Columbia River was the lowest in 95 years. The problem...
Theophilus, however, has a sense of humor. He is the first to admit that his only weapons are charm, some mild Freudian therapy, a gift for mendacity and the kind of benign chicanery that in old-fashioned stories used to help gentle, truthful and kindly people at the expense of the rapacious, the pretentious and the proud. Indeed, most of the crises North confronts are genteel and domestic: incipient misalliances (to be blocked), henpecked husbands (to be liberated) and the ill effects of ghastly rumors (to be laid to rest...
...clear case of robbing Peter to pay Paul to rob Peter again, workers must use reduced wages to buy increasingly higher-priced food, food whose cost has been raised by speculative use of the very money taken out of the workers' own wages. Adding insult to injury is a mild description of the bourgeoisie's attempt to kill the working class and make it pay for the funeral...