Word: tiring
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...Tire chains for trip to Whitewater Estates...
Lest you be mislead into thinking I'm going to whimper about the temperature, let me assure you that it's not the weather I'm talking about. Although the excess of snow may still be my most popular gripe and though my New England born neighbors tire of hearing me extol the virtues of the Golden State's perpetual spring, after two long winters I have almost grown accustomed to the idea that not all of my facial accoutrements will survive Harvard intact...
...through the window, the moment seals their fate. Quick shots of Bonnie's deft strokes as she flawlessly applies her lipstick, Clyde's cocksure grin as he displays his gun to prove his claim as a bankrobber, and the target practice, where Clyde teaches Bonnie to shoot through a tire swing are only the beginning of the sexual imagery that punctuates the film...
...Snow here is especially difficult, due to the cavalier disregard with which it is treated by the authorities of our stalwart burgh. I mean, of course, the fact that it simply isn't plowed here. It seems that here they leave snow clearance to the melting action of the tire pressure of those unfortunates still driving on the treacherous by-ways, so that the streets look like Pompeii with its well-preserved wagon tracks...
Almost as hallowed a tradition as the butter pats on the Union ceiling and the tire swing at Winthrop, we've delighted test-taking basketcases with this essay every reading period since 1950. (That's 87 reading periods, by the way.) For 43 and a half years, The Crimson has guided its readers to success in the bluebook. Though the essay won the Dana Reed writing prize in 1951, it didn't please everybody. In 1962, a grader was irked enough to reply, and the two essays have been printed together ever since...