Word: overnighter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instapolls are to be believed, the American people gave a very cautious thumbs-up to a very cautious speech. In an overnight poll from CNN, 53 percent claimed to be satisfied with the President's remarks. His job approval rating remained steady at 62 percent. Straw polls from the terrestrial networks offered similar figures. As always with Clinton, however, there were contradictions: An ABC poll had 68 percent saying he should not resign, even though 52 percent believed he did obstruct justice -- the only offense for which he could reasonably be impeached...
...receive a lot of rain. Similarly, Canada and Alaska, which tend to be cold in winter anyway, might well be colder under La Nina conditions. During the 1995-96 La Nina, for example, Winnipeg suffered daytime temperatures of -4[degrees]F or less for more than a week, and overnight lows fell to -22[degrees]F or below for 19 days running...
...week's end Blankman had not decided whether to appeal to Maryland's highest court to let her keep Cornilous. But even if the court agrees to hear her case, the boy could be returned to his biological mother by Sept. 1. Already, Cornilous has begun overnight visits to Pixley at her halfway house. In the meantime, a distraught Blankman says she lives each day with the boy as if it were their last one together...
...Mass., in the late 1840s. When his ship was wrecked in the Arctic a decade later, those who made it to shore survived the cold by stomping back and forth across the frozen tundra. My father remembers Christoph (as he called himself) telling him how his hair turned white overnight. Eventually they were rescued and taken to Hawaii, where Christoph spent the next 15 years making barrels for sugar planters in Maui's beautiful coastal village of Haiku...
...weeks ago as I was moving into my summer residence, I calculated that, if I include summer experiences (as a child, I often attended two different overnight camps in one summer), this was the eighteenth time I have moved into temporary housing, as well as the sixteenth time I have moved into temporary housing with people I do not know. For some reason, the real people who administrate our lives before we join their ranks have decided that people like us can be shuffled around at the drop of a hat, and we have willingly accepted that premise...