Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Basically, you're looking at a guy who for four years has never dropped a ball," said Murphy of the punt. "It was kind of a fluke thing...
Weather gets a bad rap for a lot of reasons. For one thing, it's difficult to say anything novel on the subject, and it tends to run itself out pretty quickly. You hear about people who really like to watch the Weather Channel, but I bet these people are not actually into weather so much as natural disaster; note the tornado and flood videos being advertised for $19.99 (plus shipping and handling), and the comparative dearth of mail-order movies about, say, humidity...
Although I probably wouldn't want to watch a video about it, day-to-day weather is just the sort of thing I like. What can I say? Cold and bright, dark and drizzly, thunder and lightning, hot sun and still air--the heavens can open up and give me anything they've got. Weather is wonderfully evocative, like an old song or a familiar smell. Hot, breezy sunshine transports me to my grandparents' house in southern California, and each clear, crackling autumn day calls up every back-to-school shopping trip I've ever taken...
...like to write [the stories], but I don't like to get people in trouble. But that's kind of my job," Berke said. "It's not a personal thing...
...their energy and fire, because beating Harvard--doing well against us--means so much to them," Zotter said. "First touches were off all over the place, and we lost a couple of balls in the air that we should have had, but that just happens some times. The important thing is that we bounced back and played much better later...