Word: parka
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Martha Moxley's mother Dorthy last saw her daughter alive on Halloween Eve 1975. Martha wore a blue parka and was skipping out the door of the sumptuous house the family had settled into just the year before, joining a group that included two across-the-lane neighbors, Thomas Skakel, 17, and his 15-year-old brother Michael. If the Moxleys were well off, the Skakels were Greenwich royalty. Rushton Skakel was chairman of Great Lakes Carbon, one of the world's largest privately held companies. In a union of money, power and more money, Skakel's sister Ethel...
...fallen like a guillotine after an early winter that seemed unnaturally and irreversibly warm. What's going on? During the balmy holidays a few weeks ago, I fell into a vague sense of elegy about old-time winters, thinking they would never come again. I stored my goosedown parka in the closet with my summer clothes. I am practically sleeping in the parka...