Word: shade
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cities can truly be seen in places like my hometown, sometimes called Tree City, U.S.A. [July 2]. Taking in the view from the nearby mountains, I sometimes find it hard to believe that there's a city down there. On hot days, we're really thankful for all the shade. I hope that city planners everywhere can follow Pasadena's example...
...recent interview, the UC President wears white shoes fastened with blue shoelaces and anchored by canary yellow soles. His shirt is a vague shade of green, and his trademark “skinny jeans”—ripped in one knee—hug his hips. The get-up is typically outlandish, but, perhaps more importantly, it is reflective of the leadership style that serves Petersen well: wacky but workable...
...Know-Nothings (so-called because their organization was secret), seemed poised for national success. Abraham Lincoln disdained them: "How can any one who abhors the oppression of Negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people?" The onset of the Civil War threw the Know-Nothings into the shade; the U.S. had enough homegrown trouble without worrying about immigrants...
...very attractive—I was left puzzled. Though I knew that post was mostly just a harmless saying thought up by some frivolous girl somewhere out in cyberspace, I couldn’t shake the feeling that such a shout out is a bit indicative of the latest shade of girl power...
...SCHOOL THE HISTORIES By Herodotus We owe most of what we know about Thermopylae--and that line in the movie about fighting in the shade--to Herodotus, the "father of history." In The Histories, he recounts the whole arc of the war with the Persians, whose arrogance proved to be their undoing...